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by hertzrat 6y ago
Facebook was a lot more pleasant to use before the feed went nuts. It was nice to log in and wonder what somebody was up to, then click the link to their profile to see what they had posted. It was a long time ago though
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It’s impressive that they have been so successful with their mostly-pull model. It seems like a good long term strategy
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by hertzrat 6y ago
You are saying that social censure is no longer something that humans need to worry about. That the concept of is a free exchange of ideas is antiquated, and that the principle of letting people learn from their debates was only valid a hun
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by hertzrat 6y ago
No, it does not. Free speech is a principle of political philosophy. The United States founders did not invent it
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I don’t think he said that. He said that many of those arrested were not active parler users, and that significantly more planing happened on Facebook and Twitter
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Thanks for the false flag
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FBI warns 'armed protests' being planned at all 50 state capitols(cnn.com)
33 points by hertzrat 6y ago|25 comments
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The issue is that there is a clear risk to democracy and everyone is in a panic to figure out how to save the democracy - so extreme measures seem okay to people temporarily and in this instance. It’s just that the different sides have the
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by hertzrat 6y ago
We’re taking about promoting the idea of deplatforming people on a massive scale because of their beliefs. I’m sorry the idea of resisting that offends so many people and I never thought hn would be the place it’s promoted so strongly Edit:
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by hertzrat 6y ago
As long as we’re talking about banning people for saying things against the consensus view, we can wipe the books of Galileos name
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Imagine a hypothetical, well-intentioned free speech focused platform, without censorship and with low moderation: it will attract those people because those people have nowhere else to go. That strategy is a non-starter. The real requireme
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by hertzrat 6y ago
When you make a new account and view a thread You post in for the first week to so, gour comments are absent absent unless you are logged in. That’s what a shadow ban is. It can be removed and it happens to every new hn account I’ve ever se
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Whether you like him or not, Zuckerberg has gotten in a lot of trouble over the years for resisting censorship pressure. His actions suggest it’s something he values
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Hackernews starts you off shadowbanned too. It’s a way to ward off spammers and bots. I know because this account started off shadow banned for 1-2 weeks until I had made 5-10 posts. Edit: Why in earth is this getting downvoted so heavily?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Agreed. Maybe the problem is that everyone uses badly organized and ambiguous Twitter threads as citation sources lately. It’s not a good platform for that, you literally don’t have the character counts to explain something
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It’s not that what you said is untrue, but those posts are just screenshots of moderation and reward tools, not necessarily ideological conformity tools. It reminds me of quora [1] and some other sites that used to pay too posters as a way
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Lots of people literally were wanting to abolish the police. The expression meant something different to almost everybody who said it. A city unanimously voted to do it[1] [1] https://nypost.com/2020/06/26/min
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I didn’t know hp was in good standing on ifixit. I know somebody who had a good hp laptop once where the thermal paste dried up. It was a dangerous day long process to get the thing open enough to get at the cooler and involved dismantling
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Posting this because I had not heard of it before this week and it seems to be at the centre of a debate right now
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What Is Parler?(arstechnica.com)
8 points by hertzrat 6y ago|3 comments
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The actual link: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/1/8/22220738/twit...
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I’ve been using unreal for the past 6 months to make a game. It’s not as easy to get started with as unity is, but if you are good at figuring stuff out then it’s just a powerhouse. The renderer is incredible, the workflows are modular, you
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I had better luck because most of the people I know aren't deeply invested in their apps. I just told everyone to add me on signal and over the years more people have started using it, and suggest signal or a phone call when its time t
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The idea of left and right comes from having a 2 party system. Politics is not a line. There are n dimensions, where n is the number of issues you care about that have a non-muddled for-against aspect (if the issue is too muddled, it is pro
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by hertzrat 6y ago
That sucks. I hope they are okay
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by hertzrat 6y ago
There are police officers who mean well and also officers who abuse their power; and police forces in different places have different institutional cultures and leadership, some of which are odious and some of which are good. "The Poli
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by hertzrat 6y ago
During elections, before I stopped using facebook, I used to try to follow everybody I could from every side of the political spectrum to try to get a more balanced feed. My goodness, my feed was immediately full of insane conspiracy theori
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Interesting if true. Do you have a non-twitter source?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Its worth noting that the companies that decided to not do this are not huge megacorps, so there is an argument to be made that anybody who isn't aggressively chasing engagement just can't get a seat at the table anymore. Am I mis
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by hertzrat 6y ago
They lose if they do something as distasteful as blackmail congressmembers to take a vote. They would lose support from everybody

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