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Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets? Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for
by xp84 19d ago
Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets?
Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!"
Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it"
Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"
- ImPostingOnHN 19d agoYou're confusing the site for the content on it. Some of the content is good, the site sucks and is run by a guy who seig-heils crowds. Even if the content sucked, your post has big "you want to improve `X`, yet you participate in `X`"[0] energy. 0 – https://kitzy.com/content/assets/images/we-should-improve-society.png https://kitzy.com/content/assets/images/we-should-improve-so...
- xp84 19d agoTwitter is not society. It's a privately-owned web site, nothing more. Always has been. Participating in it is giving your bogeyman power.
- ImPostingOnHN 18d agoI didn't say Twitter is a society, and it doesn't need to be. The joke in the comic is "Mr. Gotcha" trying to counter a desire by people to change things, by pointing out that those people participate in those things. Could be society, could be Twitter, could be anything. The comic takes this common internet argument to its logical extreme. The takeaway is that participating in something doesn't actually detract from efforts to change it. Also, to think that I, one person, can give or withdraw any of twitter's power is a silly proposition.