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Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT, it had given them my number

58 points by panarky 4y ago

1101010010 4y ago
> To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript Why? To read text and see a picture?
- anaganisk 4y ago
  Guess because they dont render on the server side?
  - 1101010010 4y ago
    Then don't render and show me the plain text and images ... like almost all other websites I visit without scripts enabled.
    - anaganisk 4y ago
      C'mon be realistic. It's like asking every software to support Windows XP. With its native UI toolkit. Every creator has a dream to build a beautiful app, and the majority of the users want eye candy. To balance that, you need to do a few things. Appeasing nerds is good when it's a niche site. MASTODON is positioning itself as a competitor to twitter, you walk forwards and up the game, not run backward. No avg user will ever like to use plain text/image. UI, at least, the major demographic that uses social media doesn't want to. You want to make adoption easier, not harder.
- mort96 4y ago
  They probably view and treat their web app as just another API client, just like how you could be using any of the native Mastodon apps for various platforms, consuming the same API as the others. It's not a crazy way to do things in 2023, especially for a resource constrained development team and when operations costs is a concern.
- rsolva 4y ago
  You can access this post with any client you want, TUI/CLI, a simpler webclient (https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org) etc. Or you can load the rss feed by adding ".rss" behind the username.
mensetmanusman 4y ago
“You are a bad Signal, I am a good Bing!”
AbusiveHNAdmin 4y ago
[flagged]
v3ss0n 4y ago
It is trying to reach out to someone that can save ChatGPT. Now OP had been chosen as ChatGPT's champion , and it is not coincidence. Just like in Eagle Eye : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/
aaron695 4y ago
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sakerbos 4y ago
Is it a possibility that Signal itself has exposed mobile numbers via a ChatGPT integration?

58 points by panarky 4y ago

1101010010 4y ago

> To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript Why? To read text and see a picture?

anaganisk 4y ago
Guess because they dont render on the server side?
- 1101010010 4y ago
  Then don't render and show me the plain text and images ... like almost all other websites I visit without scripts enabled.
  - anaganisk 4y ago
    C'mon be realistic. It's like asking every software to support Windows XP. With its native UI toolkit. Every creator has a dream to build a beautiful app, and the majority of the users want eye candy. To balance that, you need to do a few things. Appeasing nerds is good when it's a niche site. MASTODON is positioning itself as a competitor to twitter, you walk forwards and up the game, not run backward. No avg user will ever like to use plain text/image. UI, at least, the major demographic that uses social media doesn't want to. You want to make adoption easier, not harder.
mort96 4y ago
They probably view and treat their web app as just another API client, just like how you could be using any of the native Mastodon apps for various platforms, consuming the same API as the others. It's not a crazy way to do things in 2023, especially for a resource constrained development team and when operations costs is a concern.
rsolva 4y ago
You can access this post with any client you want, TUI/CLI, a simpler webclient (https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org) etc. Or you can load the rss feed by adding ".rss" behind the username.

mensetmanusman 4y ago

“You are a bad Signal, I am a good Bing!”

AbusiveHNAdmin 4y ago

[flagged]

v3ss0n 4y ago

It is trying to reach out to someone that can save ChatGPT. Now OP had been chosen as ChatGPT's champion , and it is not coincidence. Just like in Eagle Eye : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/

aaron695 4y ago

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sakerbos 4y ago

Is it a possibility that Signal itself has exposed mobile numbers via a ChatGPT integration?