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To paraphrase Gilmore, “the net interprets [mandatory login and other access fuckery] as censorship and routes around it” If Twitter locks out more readers, pe
by gumby 3y ago
To paraphrase Gilmore, “the net interprets [mandatory login and other access fuckery] as censorship and routes around it”
If Twitter locks out more readers, people will stop posting and move elsewhere. If Reddit ejects the mods that made it successful, communities will evolve elsewhere.
The forest will regrow and different paths will form, routing around the dying patches.
- 7e 3y agoThis is true of any medium in any free society. The net has nothing to do with it. It certainly isn’t capable of interpreting some website action as censorship. It’s not sentient. And there’s no dynamic network routing/damage at play here. It’s just people going somewhere else.
- thomasahle 3y agoThis is the main reason I don't use quora and pinterest. But I guess they are still around.
- jonathankoren 3y agoAt least Google Images is no longer just Pinterest results. The only time I run into this Fuck You pattern is Instagram refusing to let you replay a video.
- ddingus 3y agoYes they are, and both are a lot more crappy than they were before.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoAt least Pinterest is making money, and as a company, that's the only thing it cares about. They aren't trying to delight you, or make the best product for you. They're trying to suck as much money out of you as possible. If that means making a worse product, you're gonna get a worse product. Until this gets beat into the average person's head, we'll keep falling for companies that we think will be different.
- ddingus 3y agoYup. I have come to realize I care exactly as much as they do. Makes this all really easy. It is a big world out there with lots to do, build, see, laugh, love, play. Fuck em. I just do not need it. Whatever it is, the vast majority of the time.
- dehrmann 3y agoAlso Experts Exchange.
- tbrownaw 3y agoWow, I don't think I've heard of them since shortly after they hyphenated themselves.
- aledalgrande 3y agoThat's one community I don't miss.
- Gazoche 3y agoTechnically inclined people, perhaps. I think you're underestimating what the vast majority of Internet users are ready to put up with.