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by alex1138 2mo ago
spez is a problem. And if it's not spez, then enlighten me. But they've taken years of built up network effects and absolutely wrecked it. It's so hostile when companies do this. They just ignore their users, straight up. T
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by alex1138 2mo ago
The problem is that network effects are everything You are using a relic of what-used-to-be-Twitter. That's what people signed up for. I happen to think what Musk has done - although I'm highly skeptical of him - is not totally in
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by alex1138 2mo ago
This thing of needing to log in to view public pages needs to die It's not "security". You know it's not. I feel like Facebook started the whole thing in their desperate attempt to get more users (while simultaneously sc
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I don't consider WA a product. I don't consider it a viable product. Post-2014/Zuckerberg. Who cares if it's XMPP, it didn't federate
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I have you now, Mr. Bond. But instead of quickly disposing of you, I shall spend a 20 minute monologue on How We Must Build Things while you inexorably escape
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Yeah really How do people like him get the money to fund his little projects, it's amazing
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I remember reading about Andreessen coaching Zuckerberg, having to spoon feed him answers at trial, and apparently he was one of the masterminds behind the dual class shares/proposed third class of share (I mean that Zuckerberg apparen
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by alex1138 2mo ago
They're going to grow so powerful that they start scoffing at training data "You want me to follow the example of THIS idiot?!"
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by alex1138 2mo ago
> user stats This is really it though isn't it I know new reddit has its potential inspiration in stopping LLM scraping(?) but websites are made worse because of some stupid metric that has to be fulfilled
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Yes "the most real place" where they can just ban you whenever (the site, or its legions of - installed? - subreddit mods)
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Feeds I think was something they had to add because the EU said they had to Before that it was Top Stories/Most Recent But of course... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
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by alex1138 2mo ago
By the way, the thing that fucking amazes me about that book is not only do you hear things about "Meta is suing her to stop her talking about the book" (fuck that. Break Meta up. Zuckerberg for prison) but the financial penalty f
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by alex1138 2mo ago
He did. But it in no way excuses the way they treated him
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Meta should absolutely be routinely charged for violations of CFAA given the things they do. Zuckerberg personally.
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Arguments exist about how intellectual property needs to go anyway, but FB has always stolen from people, on many levels And furthermore their trackers have always been the most malignant. Stories of "Facebook basically ddosed my site
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by alex1138 2mo ago
He said 'if you need info on people at Harvard just ask'. Called people who gave him information 'dumb fucks' (so, who's the next person on HN that's going to dare to reply to me that he was 'making a good
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Three of which are owned by Zuckerberg . The man who said privacy is no longer a social norm I'm sure he'd love to buy Slack as well
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by alex1138 2mo ago
PS - sorry. I love a great many things about HN. I'm glad the site does sometimes insist on decorum
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by alex1138 2mo ago
You're not wrong and I do think that specific dead comment is dead for a reason. I just get a bit bristly when I do see legitimate comments buried under flags
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by alex1138 2mo ago
re: dead, I agree. I'm so tired of flags killing discussion. This site is highly regimented What I want, as someone who vaguely leaned left and has gotten... less so, since certain revelations, are platforms that work. Where you can&
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by alex1138 2mo ago
There are arguments about how Apple has too much power and we need better app stores and anecdotes about I-built-an-app-it-was-a-nightmare ...but Meta is exactly the reason why IMO it's needed. Because of people like Zuckerberg who tre
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by alex1138 2mo ago
This is not an excuse. He needs to be better. He seems pretty scummy
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Yes but it's like saying the only social media you need is email That's great if you already can reach everyone . But Facebook in theory is meant to cater to the lost-touch-with-person years ago thing
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I've been told Zuckerberg - as opposed to murdering competition in the crib, despite him being ON RECORD IN EMAILS as saying 'they can hurt us' - bought a company that was barely anything. It "had 12 employees" or w
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by alex1138 2mo ago
"They're enforcing GDPR so here's malicious compliance and our own little template verbiage about how much we do actually 'care' about your privacy. Now click me to deny or blindly accept like you have with EVERY OT
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Tribunals at the Hague. (Not for this website, which is obviously a joke/telling commentary. I mean for real 'fucking websites'.)
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by alex1138 2mo ago
And then Yahoo shut down Geocities and fought archivers and then shut down Yahoo Groups and fought archivers
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by alex1138 2mo ago
I like Gemini (I'm just a dumb person without knowledge of 'benchmarks' or how x compares to y) while understanding that shoving it into Google auto summaries has been a bad idea and produces inaccurate results
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by alex1138 2mo ago
This is literally true. I've heard their AI scrapers are especially vicious. I can imagine (I don't know this for sure, it's just what I assume) Gemini (or others, idk) kind of are classy about it. When Google pre-LLM was scr
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by alex1138 2mo ago
Yeah because how dare people actually connect with family and friends and "just get phone numbers/emails" or "just build their own" Stop. Blaming. Users.

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