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by toofy 4y ago
i mean, sure? then they’re making themselves happy. again, this is a good thing, they’re happy.
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by toofy 4y ago
there are absolutely forces who are actively weakening both social interconnectivity and also technological interconnectivity. leaders say this out right. it’s much easier for them to control and build personal wealth/power when isola
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by toofy 4y ago
so you’re the best at making yourself happy. this is a good thing.
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by toofy 4y ago
often, that is literally the goal. and that’s ok.
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by toofy 4y ago
i can assure you, if my local hardware store has ads on racist/fascist content, they’re not only not getting my business, i will be sure to use the power of word-of-mouth, and anyone who knows anything about retail knows that word-of-m
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by toofy 4y ago
i genuinely hope they dont. if spotify bought it, they would almost certainly kill off scrobbles from outside music sources. of course they would promise this wouldn't happen, but we all know from repeated experience, over time the ap
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by toofy 4y ago
> ...who decides... i do. you do. we do. im not sure what people are looking for when they ask this absurd question. while this may not be the case with you, i suspect its usually asked in bad-faith by people who are trying to insinuate
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by toofy 4y ago
if a people holds certain actions to be reprehensible, then completely unironically, yes.
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by toofy 4y ago
this site has been indispensable during wild fires. but when watching air quality in my region, i’ve been finding myself more and more frustrated by a complete lack of explanation of what causes the plummeting air quality sometimes. during
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by toofy 4y ago
i would assume the same way any platform which bans it does.
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by toofy 4y ago
> customer support in tumblr is truly terrible. i think this is a very important piece of what’s happening to the wider social platform sphere. daily we see top voted posts talking about the non-existent customer service from a disturbi
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by toofy 4y ago
for starters the idea of “unauthorized” in terms of taking a couple minutes to yourself is questionable. i have never worked in an office environment where people didn’t routinely unwind for a couple minutes. the way we’re treated in an off
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by toofy 4y ago
i have personally experienced site reliability issues (see my screenshot above where it wouldn't even load the home timeline _at all_) and they seem to be getting more prevalent. i have personally experienced an increase in spam. i hav
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by toofy 4y ago
oh, my apologies. When i saw your comment...: > What has changed with either, as it impacts a user? I've looked hard but found zero change whatsoever. ...i mistook that to mean you had been looking hard. sorry bout that.
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by toofy 4y ago
the two-factor problem was widely reported. even twitter's support discussed it. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6] here's a screenshot attempting to load twitter.com/home just 3 minutes ago [7]. these intermittent failures to load have b
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by toofy 4y ago
he’s changed a lot… he’s lost a massive chunk of the staff to run it. most of the moderation team is entirely gone. engineers have quit by the thousands. if you use two-factor authentication you were entirely locked out of your account.
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by toofy 4y ago
also check out Metatext on iOS. seems to have solved the strange quirks i had with the default app. disclaimer tho, 99% of my mastodoning hasn’t been on phone app. mostly desktop on the advanced web page. after finding about 2/3rds of
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by toofy 4y ago
if anyone truly enjoys "no moderation" from a platform, its a _very_ small number of people. if a comment section is all spam for penis enlargement pills no one hangs out there. instead, they go to comment sections where the plat
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by toofy 4y ago
> Because he loves journalism? i mean. yes. while im sure there is an investment piece in their as well, do you think its unreasonable to say journalism is immensely important to a healthy society?
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by toofy 4y ago
what leads you to believe this? does this imply that tesla, spacex, starlink don't have pr teams?
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by toofy 4y ago
at the time of their ipo, the user base was smaller. as your user base grows, obviously you need significantly more people to run the organization. when the user base grew (we'll ignore the insane chaotic ways scaling impacts technolog
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by toofy 4y ago
> ... but the media is following this unlike any other reorg because Twitter is their livlihood. i think this is a strange read on the importance of twitter for the media. twitter itself, as a technology just doesn't matter. it is
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by toofy 4y ago
would you mind explaining in more detail?
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by toofy 4y ago
> Some people are saying once you have million followers on mastdon.social, you are not going to restart from zero on mastodon.net. i think we should have learned by now that when “some people are saying…” we should be very skeptical if
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by toofy 4y ago
> Twitter figured this out in like 30 minutes. It's Safari Suggestions on any recent iOS. no, it really didn’t. i’m on 16.1.1 with suggestions on and it does not crash.
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by toofy 4y ago
i think in many cases users are closer--node wise and influence wise--to their server admins than they were to twitter's moderation team. always? of course not. but, if this is a major concern for you, then its easy to either start yo
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by toofy 4y ago
wow, this really is too bad. everything i’ve seen they seem like such rad people. i’d easily place Disco Elysium in the top 10 most immersive experiences. such an incredible piece of work. i really hope these guys find a solid path out of
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by toofy 4y ago
generally we need to see evidence, yes. particularly with the claim of “widespread” and “systemic abuse” casually tossed in. do we doubt machines have been hacked? of course not, you’re on hackernews, we all attended defcon voting machine v
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by toofy 4y ago
> …widespread evidence of systemic fraud… i’m sorry, that’s a very bold statement to make without a number of reliable citations…
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by toofy 4y ago
> As far as I know, the project actually got canned. Jack genuinely didn’t like it. I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data. yeah, th

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