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by wpietri 3y ago
Ok. So? I also think solo people don't care much about "a better experience". Indeed, bingers seem almost definitionally people who do not care about good experiences. Regardless, if that family of four watches separately, $1
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by wpietri 3y ago
Do you feel this is somehow responsive to my point? Because I'm not seeing it.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Just to be clear, that's not doing something different. Also, I'm skeptical that immersion matters all that much. People manage to get quite immersed in their phones, after all.
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by wpietri 3y ago
> making the whole thing useless Why's that? The typical user problem isn't "see all the content", it's "see some good content". As long as the two halves have critical mass, it could well be fine. For
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by wpietri 3y ago
> the disproportionate number of moderator actions we take against users of these two instances This is a key dynamic. People are used to social media sites being kept livable thanks to a team of paid professionals and fancy ML tooling,
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by wpietri 3y ago
The long history of home media suggests that people just don't care all that much about "a better experience". When I visit people's houses, I'm often appalled by the audio quality. It's usually nothing compare
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by wpietri 3y ago
> there's actually something to do What do you imagine people doing that isn't done about as well on some other Apple device? I can sort of get the gaming use case; I think it's wildly oversold, but it's legitimately
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by wpietri 3y ago
Exactly. I was watching carefully for some new capability, something that couldn't be done before. But I didn't see anything, except maybe "watch movies on a plane without looking down at your tablet/phone". Maybe I
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by wpietri 3y ago
> In fact, I believe it pretty much killed the profession of software architect. And thank goodness. I am all in favor of more consideration, more quality, more integrity. I like good architecture . But I think it's a giant mistake
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by wpietri 3y ago
That is a very white understanding of what abuse means. Also, it seems wild to me that you think a small company means you somehow have less ability to supervise your employees. What's your plan if you hire a racist who wasn't dum
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. This was also the era that labor journalism died and media shifted to being pretty much relentlessly pro-capital.
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by wpietri 3y ago
My sympathies. I never spent any time on 4chan. But between doing some desktop publishing and helping friends with abuse on the first web-based chat, I saw a bunch of things I could not unsee. It took me maybe 15 years for that stuff to not
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by wpietri 3y ago
> people are usually saying that they want all legal behavior to be allowed on the platform People saying that are generally people who have not tried to run a for-profit social media site. Or even thought about it much, really. To have
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by wpietri 3y ago
Have you ever published anything without using a computer? Comparing that process versus this, I think it's obvious the answer is yes.
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by wpietri 3y ago
You're conflating a lot of things here. One is the free exchange of ideas with freedom to harass people. Another is legal versus socially accepted. A third is the difference between "the cops should be able to arrest your for X&qu
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by wpietri 3y ago
If the only possible way you can catch a bigoted manager is by hoping that he spent a lot of time hurling racial abuse at Black people under his own name, then I think you really need to work on your management processes.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I dare you to make less sense. But if you try, please start with something more related to what I actually said, thanks.
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by wpietri 3y ago
This seems very backwards to me. The job of business isn't to do the "simple and fair" thing. It's a) to generate maximum value, b) to extract enough cash to pay the bills and then some, and c) work to keep costs at an e
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by wpietri 3y ago
I believe you mean "non sequitur", but my comment wasn't one of those either. The claim I'm responding to was in the a part you failed to quote, "censorship". Censorship is generally meant as suppression of con
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by wpietri 3y ago
Intent matters sometimes . To some people . But here, in either case the intent is to enable terrible people to, e.g., shout the n-word at people. So I don't see much of a difference in those terms.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ooh, that's good. It also makes it clearer what's going on when people are waving the "free speech" banner over things like harassment and abuse. Allowing abuse not only doesn't increase the free exchange of ideas.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Hi! I've done a bunch of trust and safety work and I see this trope a fair bit. Please help me understand what the difference is between, say, platforming racist harassment because of a "political commitment to free speech" a
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by wpietri 3y ago
And I never said otherwise.
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by wpietri 3y ago
> UTF-EBCDIC Just reading that made my eyelid twitch.
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by wpietri 3y ago
The important difference with streaming services is that much of their revenue goes to pay people to create content. Reddit users contribute content and labor so it can be seen by other users. So trying to run Reddit with the iron fist and
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by wpietri 3y ago
That is amazing and heartwarming.
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by wpietri 3y ago
> You're also proposing that someone periodically audits the different reddit clients to see if they are displaying enough / all the ads No, just the big ones. Which they will know, because they'll know the API usage. Belo
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by wpietri 3y ago
Depending on how one does it, that's true. But that's also not relevant here. Twitter as a private entity does not have to just say, "Welp, it's legal" to anything that happens on their site.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I mean, steam engines didn't fully automate mining either, but I still get his point.
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by wpietri 3y ago
> "sometimes it's not political" is not really a defense to the claim of "this time it probably was". Was it probably? I took a quick look at the deletions, the deletion reviews, and some of the older versions of

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