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Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform(platformer.news)
16 points by hn1986 3y ago|5 comments
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by hn1986 3y ago
> Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today. The company said this did not represent a reversal of its previous stance, but rather the result of reconsidering how it interprets its exis
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by hn1986 3y ago
Indeed, it's in the top 5 app rankings in many countries. https://www.appbrain.com/app/threads-an-instagram-app/com.in... I'd encourage people to give Threads and Bluesky a try. Both don't have a C
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by hn1986 3y ago
The trajectory shows it is going up. Threads is doing good considering they didn't have a web client until late August and wasn't in the EU until mid-December. Sadly, Cloudflare didn't include this in their notes for additio
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by hn1986 3y ago
On Substack, on the other hand, extremists can post for money. The pieces are now all in place for an extremist Substack to grow an audience using the platform’s recommendation systems, and monetize that audience via subscriptions. And Subs
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by hn1986 3y ago
This should be a clear cut case of worker retaliation. I see SpaceX/Musk losing in court unless they settle.
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It's the number 1 app for iOS and Android in social category and even overall in some countries. The Tech Threads community is thriving, as is Photography threads, among others. It's not the toxic wasteland that is Twitter nowaday
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by hn1986 3y ago
You've obviously not been to Threads in a while. It has a pretty thriving community, esp now that it's available in EU. There's a reason it's #1 on the app stores in many countries.
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Several communities have migrated elsewhere, some to Bluesky, others to Threads. It's great that there are these alternatives now
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Substack Has a Nazi Opportunity(popehat.substack.com)
10 points by hn1986 3y ago|2 comments
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by hn1986 3y ago
doesn’t mean I have to accept Substack’s attempt to convince me that its branding is about the good of humanity. It’s about money. Hamish McKenzie’s apologia for Substack’s approach is full of dubious (if common) arguments. Let’s address ju
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Finally, X hasn’t allowed researchers access to the platform for auditing purposes, violating a principle of transparency which is enshrined by the Digital Services Act. Following changes to the platform, access to data for research purpose
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Electrek heard from a source that Tesla informed Disney+ last week that it would remove its native app from the Tesla Theatre in its vehicles without giving a reason as to why the company. A few days later, Tesla told Disney that it would a
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Tesla removes Disney+ from some cars amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger(electrek.co)
16 points by hn1986 3y ago|2 comments
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Jan Marsalek's Deep Connections with Russian Intelligence Revealed(vindobona.org)
3 points by hn1986 3y ago|0 comments
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by hn1986 3y ago
It's unfortunate that Musk has become anti-free speech at this point. The last few years have radicalized him to the extreme right. Excellent post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38675539
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They're still slowing down links to Substack and Threads.net and NYTimes.
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Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon(nature.com)
12 points by hn1986 3y ago|0 comments
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by hn1986 3y ago
Using Google Translate: A Handelsblatt survey shows: German companies from Aldi to Volkswagen are stopping advertising on X, formerly Twitter. Only a few companies stick to the platform.
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German companies are turning away from Elon Musk(www-handelsblatt-com.translate.goog)
8 points by hn1986 3y ago|1 comments
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Please provide an update on how challenging that is to deploy!
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Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, makes it 'a more attractive option'(techcrunch.com)
18 points by hn1986 3y ago|11 comments
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by hn1986 3y ago
So far so good! https://www.threads.net/@verge/post/C04TD45LTS1
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Musk is censoring NYTimes, Substack and many others. He's not into free-speech https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-s...
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100 million MAU. and nearly the top of the app charts
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It's grown quite a bit, with more features. The trajectory of Threads is up while Twitter keeps going down. just look at the app store rankings.
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There's a couple predictions that say Threads will overtake Twitter in active users in the next year or two. Considering that Musk keeps spewing conspiracy theories, antisemitic content and engaging with neo-nazis.
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There are a lot of Musk cult supporters on here..
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Mastodon is receiving this positively, as well. https://mas.to/tags/threads
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by hn1986 3y ago
This is huge and probably the first time Meta has made things interoperable with external services. > Zuck: "Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub

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