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The fact IPFS effectively allows anyone to 'ban' a content hash makes it effectively useless.
Is that true? As in, I can ban a hash and nobody can then access it? I've never heard of that.
If you run a node, you could block hashes of content you don't want hosting. Other nodes can still host it though.
As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people. I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. T…
Nothing. I have FB account as it was the only means for me to find and connect to a person but other than that do not really use those networks.
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I think there is a meaningful difference between social media that centers the person posting vs. centering the content. Twitter centers the person, HN centers the content. One is not uniformly better than the other, but the UI/UX differences promote very different cultures. Imagine the discontent if HN people were forced into a Twitter or Reddit style UI that spends lots of screen real estate on the person posting.
> Twitter or Reddit style UI that spends lots of screen real estate on the person posting. Not sure I follow this. Reddit focuses on the content just as much as HN. The nature of the network (and quality of content in general) is quite different from HN of course. There's a lot to not like about Reddit, but it's the only social media apart from HN that I still enjoy using after quitting FB/Twitter/Insta/Snap.
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I have been off Facebook for years. I was forced to rejoin because our head of marketing departed and I had to take over our company page. OH MY F*** GOD. I could not believe the mess of user engagement triggers and dark patterns that confronted me. (I'm an ops guy, a dev and a successful entrepreneur, currently a high growth CEO) I was literally nauseated. I've actually postponed the job just to avoid the damn thing…
If Facebook is cigarettes is HN alcohol ? Half joking, I often read about social media "detox" here on HN but at the same time HN is something like a social media platform that sucks more of my time than Facebook or Twitter. The only other platform I spend more time on is YouTube. I guess it's more to do with your tendencies than platform needing dark patterns.
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Is that true? As in, I can ban a hash and nobody can then access it? I've never heard of that.
It's an oversimplification If you run a node, you could block hashes of content you don't want hosting. Other nodes can still host it though.
If that's the case, I don't see how it is a problem. The user should be able to decide what content their node hosts.
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Alas, this reads like a drug dealer distinguishing crack from cocaine.
Or it's a simple distinction between what more resembles an RSS feed for people vs. traditional social media. But if you've made up your mind that it's all rubbish, by all means don't let me interrupt.
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I have been off Facebook for years. I was forced to rejoin because our head of marketing departed and I had to take over our company page. OH MY F*** GOD. I could not believe the mess of user engagement triggers and dark patterns that confronted me. (I'm an ops guy, a dev and a successful entrepreneur, currently a high growth CEO) I was literally nauseated. I've actually postponed the job just to avoid the damn thing…
If Facebook is cigarettes is HN alcohol ? Half joking, I often read about social media "detox" here on HN but at the same time HN is something like a social media platform that sucks more of my time than Facebook or Twitter. The only other platform I spend more time on is YouTube. I guess it's more to do with your tendencies than platform needing dark patterns.
after spending time 'there', i feel drained
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If Facebook is cigarettes is HN alcohol ? Half joking, I often read about social media "detox" here on HN but at the same time HN is something like a social media platform that sucks more of my time than Facebook or Twitter. The only other platform I spend more time on is YouTube. I guess it's more to do with your tendencies than platform needing dark patterns.
The time you spend on it isn't the issue, you're focusing on the wrong thing.
(I took a month off HN, this is my first comment coming back.)
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Or it's a simple distinction between what more resembles an RSS feed for people vs. traditional social media. But if you've made up your mind that it's all rubbish, by all means don't let me interrupt.
On reddit you've got your mates page which shows you only posts from people you follow, on facebook you can curate your wall to some extent to only see news from your family and friends. You can do the same thing on twitter. It's still social media and an extremely toxic implementation of it at that.