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by joegahona 3y ago
Are there large banners or advertisements on Instagram or Facebook pushing people to use Threads? (I’m on neither.) A few more things that might affect signup numbers: Threads requires an app to use, and it’s not available in the EU yet. Al
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by joegahona 3y ago
I was just sharing what I thought was a useful link, not editorializing (though I can see where it looks like I was). Amazing how that came and went and — I’m guessing — many people (even in a niche place like HN) probably don’t remember.
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by joegahona 3y ago
Looks like they already tried this once: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...
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by joegahona 3y ago
The source would be the organic-traffic and Facebook analytics for all those news publications. Whatever it is now, won't this take it to 0%? I feel like a similar thing was tried in Europe somewhere a few years ago and then quickly di
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by joegahona 3y ago
More info: https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two Interesting that they have a rev share with their development vendor, and rely on that vendor for all engineering and product.
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by joegahona 3y ago
There are. I worked as a copy editor in consumer publications and dreaded editing one particular guy’s stuff because he took the “no passive voice” thing as gospel and really went through contortions to observe it. His copy had a really har
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by joegahona 3y ago
Readable and fun, but extremely useful: • Lapsing into a Comma, Bill Walsh (RIP) • The 10% Solution, Ken Rand (for editing down wordy text) • Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale • Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner More resource-like and gramma
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by joegahona 3y ago
Just thinking about that outcome yesterday caused my blood pressure to skyrocket. Dark, cold, cramped, fetid, hungry, thirsty, knowing oxygen is running out.
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by joegahona 3y ago
I don’t get the criticism that Rubin doesn’t have “a particular sound.” Music should have the musicians’ sound, not the producer’s. The producer should be invisible and bring out the best in the musicians, the way an editor in writing is.
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by joegahona 3y ago
For killing scope creep, yes. But Rubin works off instinct and his own tastes and is forthright about having no clue or interest on what listeners want. Those aren’t traits that really make a good PM, but thank goodness music isn’t product
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by joegahona 3y ago
Dogs are completely forbidden during those hours? Or only off-leash is forbidden?
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by joegahona 3y ago
It sounds like you're in the cohort of "some just waved and moved on."
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by joegahona 3y ago
Here’s a source for the free-gold-check thing: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/31/23664923/twitter-verifica...
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by joegahona 3y ago
> Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the transition team, I didn't realize lawsuit filings could have colorful language like this.
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by joegahona 3y ago
Verge churns out an “article” every few hours that is just a bunch of Twitter embeds sandwiched between a few sentences of fluff. Sometimes they even retype what’s in the Tweets, to fill up space, or presumably if the embeds break. (Or mayb
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by joegahona 3y ago
> I think he’s upset because NPR said they basically get no meaningful traffic from Twitter. Exactly. Musk grossly overrated the amount of traffic publications actually get from Twitter, which is minuscule compared to Facebook, Google, a
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by joegahona 3y ago
> A 1% conversion rate is pretty much what I would expect from an online business. When I was doing research on paywalls, this was my experience too, and some paywalls are much cheaper than $8/month. (Sites like Wired are always run
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by joegahona 3y ago
I would agree, up until last week. Giving Twitter Blue purchasers priority in "For You" and in replies is a truly vile experience.
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Musk cuts Twitter’s parental leave from 20 weeks to 2(nypost.com)
14 points by joegahona 3y ago|17 comments
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by joegahona 3y ago
The "preferential positioning" seems to be just a belief at this point. Anecdotally I've seen far more people saying they've seen no difference in Tweet engagement since subscribing. But I agree with you -- it's the
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by joegahona 3y ago
I agree that this is fraud / false endorsement / whatever. If it's "only" three people, as Musk as claimed (LeBron, Shattner, King), it's probably manageable for Twitter to sort out, but I'm guessing a lot
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by joegahona 4y ago
I did too, and I even liked the aggressive cropping. Totally subjective though. The final result was beautiful as well, and this was a joy to read.
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by joegahona 4y ago
Yeah, I tried to stick to HN guidelines and maintain the original title... but wow, are you right! Also the clip in that Tweet doesn't do it justice either -- the whole interview/podcast is worth listening to.
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Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter Clone’? We Asked CEO Chris Best(theverge.com)
7 points by joegahona 4y ago|3 comments
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by joegahona 4y ago
PBS Newshour has posted three times in the past hour, and pbs.org still promotes its Twitter presence on its homepage. Until these orgs actually delete their account, they haven’t “quit Twitter” — they’ve paused posting.
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by joegahona 4y ago
That occurred to me too. You want something that has meaning but isn't insanely generic. So something between "Notes" and "Nostr."
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Amplitude Lays Off 13% of Team (99 people)(amplitude.com)
39 points by joegahona 4y ago|33 comments
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by joegahona 4y ago
There’s conflicting info flying around. Elon said somewhere that the “Top 10,000 organizations will be grandfathered in.” [1] Lots of publishers — Vox, Buzzfeed, Washington Post, CNN — now have a gold checkmark, which denotes an organizatio
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by joegahona 4y ago
There was an article about this same topic in Omni magazine decades ago [1]. I followed its recommendations and was never able to get anywhere. I have lucid dreams maybe 10% of the time now. I also have sleep paralysis, which is a weird kin
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by joegahona 4y ago
I used to work at a food/recipe publication and had a similar experience -- users constantly complained that they wanted more healthy recipes, but those types of recipes always performed poorly. Meatloaf and other comfort foods dominat

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