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by wwweston 5y ago
Windows backward compatibility is something I cast a jealous eye on. It leads to the idea that a platform can actually transcend sand-castle transience and get to a place where it’s sufficiently stable to provide decades-long investments in
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by wwweston 5y ago
"Wait 'til you hear about people who record conversations the park! The spook bouncing lasers off the window of your home & office to reconstruct audio of your conversations will seem quaint by comparison." In other words
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by wwweston 5y ago
Of the three accounts I’ve created — one as recent as 2020 — I can’t recall any verification process which so much as required me to put in a real name.
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by wwweston 5y ago
First off — how do you have stats regarding the volumes of content adjudication much less broken down by political leanings? Is this something with a methodology and data we could actually all review? Second: let’s say it’s true. How woul
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by wwweston 5y ago
"Human" and "pseudonymous" aren't exclusive, and there's a number of ways to verify the former w/o documenting real identity. Keeping things as human only as possible means that you can't scale-up app
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by wwweston 5y ago
I'm reading the commentor you're responding to as commenting on general social trends in rural areas they're familiar with (or merely hearing about) rather than judgments on any specific individual. It's certainly possib
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by wwweston 5y ago
Can you spend some time pointing out a few of the specific inaccuracies from your perspective?
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Social media platforms are natural monopolies. If this was the case, Facebook wouldn't have needed to buy Instagram and Whatsapp. Or hell, there wouldn't have been FB because MySpace would have been king forever. Network effe
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by wwweston 5y ago
It's a hard problem if you don't have the clout to get attention and/or if there's no particular demand for whatever distinction your platform offers. Musk has market-moving clout and a cult of personality, so the remain
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Buying the company and taking it private will give him the ability to make those hard choices and try to make a social media company that is positive for humanity. If that's the goal, why not simply found another social media co
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by wwweston 5y ago
I was on a team that sunk 9 months into its model for a major project and what I saw bears no resemblance to what you're describing. It's a framework that hated the idioms of its host language, as if the problem with front-end dev
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by wwweston 5y ago
> is the creator of Angular. Welp, that's reason enough for me to ignore him entirely. Especially on the topic of "overhead." Angular was an inexcusable atrocity.
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by wwweston 5y ago
It's very clever. It redirects of a raft of points Wong makes into a narrative Musk is pushing. It probably represents one of the reasons why he's so successful. :) It also loses its luster on a bit of reflection -- this particu
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by wwweston 5y ago
> you claim that anyone who supports free speech is "actually a deeper enemy of discourse" than a censor Not what I said. If you care about speech, try to be careful about parsing, interpreting, and summarizing it. If something
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by wwweston 5y ago
> his concrete proposals seem to include things like an edit button, long-form tweets and some monetization strategies. This sounds like an opportunity to diversify the media (and discourse) landscape with a different product.
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by wwweston 5y ago
> To paraphrase: "Ideas are dangerous" More precisely: ideas are powerful, which means they can be dangerous. Anyone who doesn't understand that is actually a deeper enemy of discourse than a platform owner who says thei
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Elon is arguing that Twitter is mismanaged. Anyone who thinks this is manifestly true should read this take from an ex-CEO of Reddit: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440 tl;dr: managing huma
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by wwweston 5y ago
Freedom of speech doesn't actually matter to to someone who mischaracterizes what Wong said so profoundly and misses so many important and useful points he made.
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by wwweston 5y ago
I'm not seeing anything in your comment that actually refutes the substance of what Wong said. Volunteering to show your own oppression receipts isn't evidence against the idea that people from many political poles thing the platf
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by wwweston 5y ago
After watching him do the same thing with crypto, it's astonishing to me people aren't taking this explanation for his behavior more seriously.
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by wwweston 5y ago
Moderation in a private vehicle for speech could take it seriously at any stage they choose (and I'd argue that the freedom to decide where the line is inside private stewardship is in fact part of freedom of discourse). And there pr
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Twitter became a negative-sum game of people competing to debase themselves in service of narrative in exchange for nothing but the approval of others who had already done the same. I'm trying to imagine this statement actually bo
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Uh, we already do that. Fraud, defamation, uttering threats, false advertising, perjury, filing a false report, etc. Sometimes I think "free speech" is a misnomer, and the common phrase should be "freedom of discourse.&q
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by wwweston 5y ago
> there is a strong case to be made, but then fail to make a strong case Especially given: 1) The number of digital outlets. Utilities tend to be regulated when there are no alternatives or merely 1 alternative (especially when monopoly
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by wwweston 5y ago
I'll worry the moment the state makes expression of ideas illegal. When it comes to private vehicles for speech, the right to amplify or attenuate speech carried on these vehicles is itself a free speech right . Newspapers can exercis
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by wwweston 5y ago
SB-9 / "ADUs Everywhere!" passed last year at the state level effectively makes all property legally 2-3 unit. Some people really want to live in lower-density suburban environments, though. I can't say I blame them, bec
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by wwweston 5y ago
> As I've repeatedly pointed out Oh, anyone who's followed our exchange can tell you're into repetition. Almost like a religious mantra. And while there's a lot I could also repeat here, the following is the only nove
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Are you also one of those people who pretend that twitter, facebook, and google don't lean left in their moderation? I'm one of those people who requires evidence for the assertion that there's some systemic left lean
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Certain ideas are made more difficult to express Which ones? Describe a few. Try not to embarrass yourself by either picking something for which someone could actually find a tweet embodying the idea, or by demonstrating that what you&
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by wwweston 5y ago
LOL there's a fun one. What's next, writing a new arbitrary definition so that pinching people for not wearing green on St Patricks day is also censorship? There are reasons the formal definition of censorship focuses on the actio

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