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Yeah, it's even invaded the more obscure subreddits. Some posters try to shoehorn in political commentary even when it doesn't have much to do with the topic. I doubt there are eve…

In other words, "it's the economy, stupid" (That phrase was used by James Carville to help Bill Clinton get elected in 1992)

I distinctly remember the mindset of HN that the second comment linked describes, that Meta was doomed. Then many started cheering it on because they wanted Twitter to fail. Neithe…

> Text posts appear similar to Instagram Stories Seems more of an Instagram replacement than a Twitter one, the userbase of Instagram is also closer to TikTok than Twitter.

Just because Facebook may potentially create their own app store doesn't mean others are going to use it. Even on Android, sideloading is fraught with warnings that the average old…

> Maybe a company can actually do a genuinely decent thing every once in a while Sure. But I have zero confidence, based on previous actions, that company is Facebook/Meta.

> There was a proposed change about six months or a year ago, but it was walked back after public criticism. Was that change ever walked back? I recall that Whatsapp wanted to send…

I share your sentiment. I use Twitter for business and Instagram (before I deleted it) for friends. I follow very different accounts on each. I'm not going to mix business and plea…

> experience of working on a film or television series that is underbid, understaffed, subject to unreasonable, inflexible deadlines, and endless directorial nitpicking: "pixel fuc…

Intelligent enough to create a grift selling subscriptions to the "Real World" featuring rehashed low-quality dropshipping/crypto/copywriting content, sure. That's not even how he …

> But let's never forget that we were and can be allies. Can you share some examples? Honest question, I've never seen this happen in modern day America (it's usually just one side…

How is it worse? From a privacy perspective they're both terrible and the data flows to the same Meta servers, but Facebook demands you use your real name (and demands photo ID if …

It would be interesting to see Facebook Groups divorce from Facebook itself. Maybe allow people to login using an Instagram or Whatsapp identity, or better yet an independent login…

Parent commenter is talking about (banned) conservative subs, not r/conservative specifically. And yes there is a difference, there was a "Never Trump" movement led by conservative…

> The abuse is directed at everyone; no matter what opinion you share, no matter who you are, you will be verbally abused in a variety of ways. Yeah, this is what people misunderst…

I was watching the stream earlier. It was an exciting feeling to have 10,000 people viewing, and cheering on the chat whenever a new subreddit went dark. I don't know if I should b…

You can't vote on a poll using a 3rd party app. For example, if you click on a poll using Apollo, it opens the Reddit website as a new window and you have to log in again and vote …

From what I've seen, only for niche programming or highly technical circles. My "normie" friends don't even want to try something polished like Signal. Mastodon would have to be he…

I initially thought this was a dupe of next weeks protest, but no, this is a permanent shutdown.

the_donald made it very clear that they were a subreddit trying to mimic a Trump campaign rally. You could even be a conservative, mildly critical of Trump's policy and still get b…

Previous discussion (from 8 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850799

> it's just been improved This is a debatable statement. Personally I want to see the original artist's intent, warts and all. It gives insight into the cultural sensitivities, or …

Also, this article talks about a protest (which is new information, unlike previous HN submissions which only reported the changes.)

To be fair, I had this same issue pre-Elon. You have to go into your settings and turn off everything except "Related to you and your tweets"