Dreamwidth is a blogging site, an offshoot of Livejournal, I would expect content on it to be across the full spectrum of both opinions and quality. Banning it as a domain makes about as much sense as banning Wordpress or Blogspot.
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#32I was not aware that Facebook blocked users from posting links to specific domains. Is the list made public anywhere?
Sure, they block most of the porn websites or mirror websites hosting copyright content from posts or private messages.
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#33This is why I'm so cynical about the Zuckerberg's stated stance on “free expression”. You can't go around positioning yourself as if you're the last bastion of free speech online[1] and then turn around and block large swathes of indie content because they are hosted on a particular domain.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/17/zuckerb...
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
The lack of an app is something for it. Literally every app of some website has the worse experience. Even worse the website will keep begging you to install their shitty app.
I'd say Apollo (or Reddit is Fun on Android) is a heck of a lot better than new Reddit, and about as good as old Reddit. And Google Maps' app beats their site by a county mile on iOS. There's no good Hacker News client for mobile though, at least one that's better than the web page. Not that I'm saying someone should make one either, the site is responsive as heck.
Apollo is a bad example since Reddit purposely sabotage their website so you use their app.
It's perfectly possible to write a good Reddit web client; they chose not to
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#35In the past there was a news about Paypal banning Dreamwidth. Not sure if its related: "About six months after opening, PayPal -- our payment processor at the time -- demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms) that was legal and protected speech but that they felt violated their terms for using PayPal." HN discussion on it: ht…
demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms
Livejournal was a hotbed of dubious fanfic (shall we say) in which one or more characters was underage. Maybe such a thing is technically not illegal but even so, many left that platform once it started to develop a reputation for it. Then it went bust and was sold to a Russian company, it is still used for normal blogging in Russia.
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#36I'm afraid I can't remember the exact example, but I think about 4 years ago there was some open-source-y, privacy-focused Facebook alternative that got blacklisted in a similar way. Private messages containing the URL or name just wouldn't go through.
Based on a previous post like this, it not only disappears the existing messages but reaches into the past and memory holes every message that’s contained the link in the past!
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The lack of an app is something for it. Literally every app of some website has the worse experience. Even worse the website will keep begging you to install their shitty app.
I'd say Apollo (or Reddit is Fun on Android) is a heck of a lot better than new Reddit, and about as good as old Reddit. And Google Maps' app beats their site by a county mile on iOS. There's no good Hacker News client for mobile though, at least one that's better than the web page. Not that I'm saying someone should make one either, the site is responsive as heck.
Agreed. I also use Apollo. I think the secrets is that is has less features so it shows content without the fluff from the official app
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#38I suspect that DW has some interesting stuff. At first blush, it looks like LiveJournal 2.0. There's probably some pretty...interesting stuff, but it's not aggregated and promoted, like FB. It looks like each account is pretty insular.
That’s exactly what it is — they forked the LJ codebase.
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#39Interesting place, never heard of it before. > Dreamwidth Studios is an Open Source social networking, content management, and personal publishing platform. Our mission in life is to make it easy for you to share the things you make, and easy to find the people who are making the things you want to enjoy. > We have all the features you've come to love in social networking sites, including privacy and security feature…
Yeah, it's an actually good blogging site. Main thing it has against it is the lack of an app. (And that Facebook has just blocked it)
How do you imagine content discovery in an app for an open-source blogging platform (self-hosted instances) could work?
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#40Dreamwidth contains lots of spammy blogs.
So does the internet in general. It's still poor form to block entire platforms without warning.
Not really...
I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook just blocks an entire domain when abuse report incidents hits some threshold.
I'm not saying it's ideal, but I understand how it got this. DW should be on: https://publicsuffix.org/
And maybe FB moderation should consider the public suffix list.
Another solution is to moderate content on your domain. Or require users have separate domains.