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Also, not everybody you disagree with acts in bad faith. Nazis, communists, anarchists, you name it: most of them believe their views of society will lead to a betterment of it. Th…

I can't help but notice that you, complaining about “free speech”, have the name of a German dish at the end of your name.

Moderators of highly restrictive instances (the most populous ones) blacklist all the instances they don't like. In fact most of those instances use a shared blacklist. So you have…

Exactly. I get your point. But mine is: Mastodon shouldn't be publicised as an alternative to Twitter because it's not. It would be like publicising HN as an alternative to Reddit.…

Because most of the bigger instances have shared blocklists. I am not interested in Mastodon as a tech stack, I am interested in joining a social network. But the truth is that it'…

With all of its faults, I'll take Twitter and its almost free speech over Mastodon any day. Many people say they are quitting Twitter because of the algorithmic timeline and so on,…

The point is that credit cards offer very valuable services in exchange for fees. Bitcoin offers nothing for a higher fee.

The problem is not having one single ID linked to everything, which most countries do. The problem is pretending that ID is a secret, which it is not. It's stupid to treat SSNs as …

Just because India (India, of all places) can't do things right doesn't mean that a universal ID is a bad idea. Most countries in the world have a universal ID that hasn't been hac…

Court-ordered things are legal.

It does not surprise me to see HN treating McCain as a hero, when he was pretty much the definition of "cuckservative" (a word I deeply hate, but fits here)

I speak Spanish and it all sounded very natural to me... :-)

He raises a good point. I've read some of this guy's stuff on Twitter, it's really pathetic. No wonder he's depressed if he lets himself be treated like this.

AT vulnerabilities... 2003 all over again