systemicdanna

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by systemicdanna 4y ago
The risk of this approach is that you are not picking an interest. You are picking an environment with a set of rules and regulation, an environment that has certain physical constraints (response time, scaleability), an environment that de
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
This one looks like a hacked account of a musician called Joe Memmel. I hope at least hijacked accounts will still be taken care of by Twitter.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
The incoming wave of crypto spammers with blue checkmarks is going to be impressive in size.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
I appreciate your explanation!
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
The existence of overwhelmed workers who don't have any energy (or desire) to think outside of their daily routine is a shared characteristic of all economic regimes in sufficiently large countries. It's not due to "socialism
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
I see the situation you described in the last paragraph as a very real possibility. Not going to defend Twitter, but at least it can’t ban whole organized communities at once. Mastodon’s federation that is left up to instance admins to deci
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
> You can hand-wave a lot of impossible moderation problems away just by not being so damn big Instance admins can certainly be more decisive and just ban anyone they want without causing a media storm. Not sure if that's what peopl
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
So... are there any countries in the world that are not socialist by your definition? Maybe China? It has, perhaps, lower taxes and better public schools.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
There you go: just clone and deploy https://github.com/RisingGeek/twitter-clone .
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Are you suggesting they should pre-ban all people and entities you don't want to see on the instance?
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Register on website A -> you can post at and follow people from website A. Go to website B and follow a person from that website without registering. Now you can also see their updates on website A.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Have you ever tried to follow anyone from an instance that your instance refused to federate with? I am wondering how big of a problem this is. Not that I have encountered it, mostly just see this as potential a drawback of Mastodon's
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
This is just not a solid argument. Let's replace Twitter with the US government. Why should it be allowed to impose its own bias on billions of people worldwide?
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
LGBT communities are mostly very supportive and welcoming (which I envy as a straight man). Also they are not niche in the same sense as some music genre communities, which I am trying to be a part of but the discussion is just not happeni
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Content from all federated instances is added to the feed in your instance, so you personally don't need to follow illegal stuff for it to appear in your feed. This is actually the most off-putting feature of Mastodon for me.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
AFAIK if you access a user's private info at Facebook your employee's ID will be immediately flagged leading to very severe consequences (instant firing in most cases).
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
I have the same experience so far but also acknowledge that it will take a very long time for communities to form around individual Mastodon instances. Of course, that might never happen at scale (a large number of instances with functionin
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Privately-owned global public square with laws and regulations set by the said private company? Then we all agree and there is no problem to solve.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
You are certainly aware that Twitter did not start as a public square either (the original idea was to share SMS messages with a group of friends). So I am not following your argument. My argument is that there is a place online where anyon
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
One problem with this argument (and there are many) is that we assume that this _global_ public square should be controlled by the US government. That doesn’t make it much more fair or impartial than the current ownership. If being gay is i
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
There is place like that already: 4chan. How is that working so far as a public square?
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
I really dislike when people downvote without commenting... wish leaving a comment was a requirement for a downvote at HN. Saying that, my guess is that you are being downvoted for self-promotion.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
I can see logic in this. "Local", federated spaces are more analogous of a public square in my view. On the other hand, a global neutral public square where all ideas can be expressed and challenged is just not feasible in any mea
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
> However we also need a public square online Why? What is this notion based on? A global public square never existed in the history of our species, why do we keep bringing up the idea of a public square as something completely reasonabl
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
This comparison of Twitter to some fantasy public square will never stop bewildering me. What was the global public square before Twitter? When did we have a place where every person on the planet could freely express themselves? This is ju
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
> In 2 weeks Twitter will have shipped a major feature ($8/mo subscription). Do you mean that he is planning to increase the subscription price for an existing feature called Twitter Blue? Why do so many Musk’s fans have the urge to
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
For sure. It is frustrating to watch Twitter struggle so much with introducing meaningful monetization streams. Saying that, things probably seem simpler and more obvious from the outside. Jack is an idealist in a very stubborn way. He sacr
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Well, you are missing the fact that Musk ordered Twitter to reboot its short-form video app Vine. Expect tens of billions of dollars in revenue by 2028!
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Did you expect it to crash the second people were let go? It’s not like they power Twitter servers with power-generating bicycles.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Agreed. He probably didn’t let go many infra people. If some product teams were reduced in size and will become slower at butchering the UI, the user will only benefit.

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