A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter

If the false positive rate is low and human review is swift and not broken, I really wouldn't mind.

It's a force multiplier that every social media platform needs to not drown in costs for human moderation. Especially human moderation as described above.

Unless you get people to pay for social media. Good luck with that.

Every time I read about these dystopian deplatforming events on Hacker News, my first reaction is to write a comment on how we could find our way out of this. Then the term "Web3" comes up in my mind, and then I think "Oh now, this is HN, they will burn you alive" and I turn to other things again.

But right now, for some reason I feel so strongly about, I'll give it another try.

Wouldn't it be great if we could tackle two issues with in one go? The annoying interfaces of Twitter/FB/Insta and co and the constant fear of being deplatformed? By publishing our stuff on a decentralized database that is open for anyone to read in whatever way they like?

I fight hard to read the web in my way. When I see a link to Twitter, I manually change it to Nitter. I use an ad blocker. Bookmarklets to remove sticke elements from the pages I visit.

I try hard to publish my stuff, so it cannot be deplatformed easily. Preferably on my own domain.

But it's all crutches.

The web I read still feels aggressive, annoying, mean, dangerous, exhausting.

The most important platforms I write to (where people can like and comment) give me the feeling of walking on thin ice. Every moment, me and my audience might be separated.

I really long for a future where content is published in a freely available database. Free to read from and free to write to. Where a post is a content addressable piece of data signed by the author. And comment too. And where a like is a cryptographically signed message, "I like this /joe". And where the order of your "feed" is not adjusted by outside forces.

>Does a company have a right to scale faster than it has the ability to properly moderate?

A right? Yes.

>Looking at a more extreme example: If General Motors used AI to design cars and they increased the likelihood of fatalities, would we feel any different?

Getting (temporarily?) banned from Twitter isn't even close to being as bad as a fatality, so the GM example doesn't make any sense.

What i find surprising is people willing to trust a random person saying they got banned without elements to prove it

I find this very suspicious, why not show what twitter told you? that seems to be the first thing someone would share when they complain about getting banned

I'll go with "trying to surf on the Stray hype to get clicks" until proper more details are shared

I'll leave it unedited for the giggles.