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by alex1138 6mo ago
You can thank Marc Andreessen whose world view is apparently limited solely to "Snowden is a traitor". Thank god someone like him has fuck you money and can shape the world to his desires (And I've heard he stole Mosaic code,
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by alex1138 6mo ago
I'm just sad Google was intent on ruining their own product, whether removing + operator (seriously - Google+ is not an excuse, I don't care if it conflicts with search, don't do that) or some of their political censorship
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by alex1138 6mo ago
But you still get a lot of "shareholder responsibility" comments. Imagine a company that dumps sewage into a river (be that literal or metaphorical). Internet people come around to tell you this is the nature of capitalism and sha
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by alex1138 6mo ago
I've never seen him as honest. Whatever you think of individual incidents (was Cambridge Analytica a real scandal politically or just a data scandal? - or whatever) he's just... not a... well, he's a "careless person&quo
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by alex1138 7mo ago
NASA certainly took many risks back then. People remember Apollo 11 for the landing, but for example on Apollo 8, with a fire roughly 2 years earlier that killed 3 astronauts, they had one manned mission (Apollo 7) and then immediately sent
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by alex1138 7mo ago
bsky is meant to hold the promise of control your algorithm, I don't see why that can't be the model going forward
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Free speech which apparently includes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651178 I actually am more at odds with HN than many people might be because I think the lies surrounding covid and the censorship were absolutely
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by alex1138 7mo ago
They both captured the early market (inconsistent page style of Myspace, slowness of Friendster, then they acquired Friendfeed) in an early internet - anyone who captures the early market will have THE network effect for decades (plus shado
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by alex1138 7mo ago
For all the creepy People You May Know stuff they don't even bother connecting people properly even on people's personal pages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Guys, there's no need to insta-downvote. I provided substantive evidence. Look in the mirror, and evaluate who you work for
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Keep in mind Zuckerberg is someone who supports things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791198 Zuckerberg was told about gay people being added to groups and it outed them by posting to their wall, and he ig
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Your comments seem to imply the engineers made a great product but Zuck intervened so now it's shit
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by alex1138 7mo ago
But no account support, that's boring Or any quality control (people missing posts) Or banning the people who should be banned while leaving everyone else alone This is Zuck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433
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by alex1138 7mo ago
I want to know who was responsible for the "it's ok to call gay people etc mentally ill" policy. Kaplan? Zuck? Not that it matters. FB's moderation and policies are so inconsistent it's unlikely they banned it befor
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by alex1138 7mo ago
None of us had any idea what updates were supposed to be back then and yet those updates were probably less broken than they are now
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by alex1138 7mo ago
I think the view you put here is legitimate, Greenwald had an article about Frances Haugen kind of saying the same sorts of things
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by alex1138 7mo ago
> sadly nerfed by E2E Seriously, why? (Not you, I'm asking rhetorically to Facebook) This broke Messenger. People don't have each others' email addresses (FB has seen to that https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by alex1138 7mo ago
I am incredibly saddened by Facebook because "social" should have exploded along with the rest of the web. The web is this vast place (which Facebook is trying to change https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079119
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by alex1138 7mo ago
It's not exactly choice. I'm well aware there were other social services that were before FB but you have to look at the timeline. The internet NOW is objectively probably still pretty young (it's hard to quantify age with so
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Yeah so if you need any info on people at Harvard just ask https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122
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by alex1138 7mo ago
There's a massive whitewashing of what "social media" is. I don't feel there's one singular definition but I could be wrong, maybe I am the one who missed the boat. But I'd really love to see it quantified mo
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Clippy "It looks like you're trying to go to the Moon. Want any help with that?"
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Heat shield is the concerning part, yeah. I'm thrilled the launch went well but that's the thing to watch for, AFAIK
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by alex1138 7mo ago
It's not just that, it's also outright black hat behavior like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Perhaps but then you get stuff like this https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/facebook-you-needy-sonofabit... They need to play fair or GTFO
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by alex1138 7mo ago
I hate that they own it. The case for antitrust is less than in the case of Whatsapp (though with Instagram Zuckerberg had to hasily backpedal in an email, probably because his lawyer furiously told him not to say certain things about buyin
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by alex1138 7mo ago
I'm not going to attack you but I do just want to highlight analogous comments of "she could have left" - She was trying to work to change things - She was pregnant and otherwise had young children and needed the money
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by alex1138 7mo ago
> "If people feel like they're not having a good experience, why would they keep using the product?" A statement that's been brought up even by HN commentators Facebook is not a free market where you can choose. You&#
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by alex1138 7mo ago
You lost your account because our systems automatically banned you? Oops! Sorry!
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by alex1138 7mo ago
Facebook is a company that doesn't believe in boundaries (seen when Zuck refused to acknowledge the problems with graph search or with gay people being added to groups that outed them by posting on their walls), the CEO is someone with

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