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by etchalon 4y ago
There are no successful "pay for access" social media networks, and the argument that Twitter's dominance some how held App.net back ignores all the other social networks that succeeded despite being founded after Twitter.
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by etchalon 4y ago
You seem to be demanding that Twitter adopt policies and features despite the fact the market has shown those policies and features will shrink their user base and their profit. "Pay-to-play Twitter" was already tried. It was call
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by etchalon 4y ago
The most high profile, and controversial, "moderation" decisions made by large platforms recently have generally been for obvious, and very public, reasons.
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by etchalon 4y ago
1. I didn't imply whether it was good or bad, just that the product you're describing already exists. 2. It's a platform problem. If you make users do work they don't want to do in order to make the platform pleasant to
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by etchalon 4y ago
1. There are plenty of places online that "don't moderate anything". In fact, nearly all of the social networks started off that way. The end result is … well, 4Chan. 2. "Self-moderation" doesn't work, because
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by etchalon 4y ago
This reasoning is generally lost on people whom are generally not a target for slurs and harassment.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I think this idea rests on the foundation of "shame." But there are entire groups of users that not only don't feel shame about their activities, but are proud of them.
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by etchalon 4y ago
You solved bots, but destroyed the product.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I suspect HN succeeds due to heavy moderation, explicit community guidelines and a narrow topic set.
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by etchalon 4y ago
An easier distinction would be “censorship is when the government does it.”
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by etchalon 4y ago
The notion that the reason certain groups of people aren't taken seriously in certain roles is because of "D&I" or "AA" is flatly ahistorical. Certain people just refuse to accept certain groups of people are ca
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by etchalon 4y ago
People were accusing people of being "diversity hires", or having "slept their way to top", or similar dismissive nonsense long before AA was in wide use.
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by etchalon 4y ago
And not a blockchain in site.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I don't understand why they had to conflate "Verified as who they say they are" with "Pays us money, so is probably a human." In fact, conflating those two things seems ripe for abuse.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Depends on your lease terms. Many, if not the majority, of commercial leases, including mine, are Net leases, which have the business maintaining the property (and paying the property taxes in the case of a triple Net lease). And many, if n
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by etchalon 4y ago
Capital, and access to it, and the costs associated with raising it, is a thing.
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by etchalon 4y ago
On the one hand, I believe organizations dedicated to fighting misinformation are essential. But I am also incredibly nervous about those organizations being backed by the power of the state. But I'm also not sure organizations without
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by etchalon 4y ago
Your comment is such a perfect example of the ouroboros of misinformation, it's hard to believe it exists.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Because they could. When you see someone getting robbed on the street, you can chose to do nothing. But a lot of people would think you're morally deficient for doing nothing. And a lot of people would do something in that situation.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Email remains decentralized.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Yep.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Isn't this just shadow-banning, which is already a thing people believe is the same as censorship and enumerate numerous conspiracies about?
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by etchalon 4y ago
If we consider the 1st Amendment a Law … everything.
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by etchalon 4y ago
I continue to not understand why anyone would buy Twitter, or care about "free speech!" as a business directive. There are plenty of "free speech!" Twitter like products. They attract a niche, and likely unprofitable dem
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by etchalon 4y ago
The iPhone before the App Store was exactly the same as all of the other phones on the market at the time, none of which were useless.
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by etchalon 4y ago
Given its output, at this point I'm beginning to assume Meta Reality Labs is some weird form of tax evasion masquerading as a company producing niche hardware products.
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by etchalon 4y ago
While the points of the article are salient, they remind me of the complaints OS 9 die-hards made about OS X. As Apple dog-foods and builds using new tooling (back then Carbon and Cocoa, today Swift UI), stuff gets worse until it gets bette
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by etchalon 4y ago
… you're describing how journalism you know, works. "Pentagon Papers? Like the most powerful nation on earth would just print all that information out and give it to those liberals at the times."
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by etchalon 4y ago
It's absolutely ridiculous that the administrator for a Company Page can't remove a person as an employee from that page. We have a dozen or more fake employees on our page, plus ex-employees who never updated their linkedin, and
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by etchalon 4y ago
The ease and availability of card processing has created an wealth of people who use it without understanding the agreements, risks and requirements of using it. The processors focus on ease of use and friction-free on-boarding isn't h

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