This will happen as with World of Warcraft - there will be years of talk about a "Twitter killer", and nothing will match that, but lots of alternates will appear. Twitter will be the Twitter killer as it fades away, not to nothing, but to a fraction of what it once was, still populated by some people that enjoy it, but will become less and less of a cultural mover. Which is really a good thing.
Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
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Agreed. Nothing has accelerated media groupthink more than Twitter.
Reddit, HN and other online commentary platforms where contributions get "scored" are thoroughly deserving of an honorable mention when it comes to fostering groupthink.
Isn't slashdot the original sin ?
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So it’s basically as popular as MySpace is these days.
29 Sept 2022 — More than 1.5m active users of DALL-E are creating more than 2m images a day.
It feels like the AI image generators got huge overnight but the hype has faded away almost as fast. In my family, we were obsessed with them for about 72 hours and I haven’t heard anybody mention them since. I know it’s still there if I ever have a need for them, but I don’t really have any interest in using them anymore.
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#304how about we don't fall into mass hysteria and wait? People don't move from platforms, they drift away naturally. I didn't move away from slashdot, I just found reddit suited my needs and naturally visited the site less and less. and then, I didn't move from reddit to HN, I just used reddit less and less until I realized HN fit my niche more. I still have my slashdot account, but it's been unused since 2014 with redd…
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To clarify, I mean an action against another person. This is as per the golden rule, do no harm. If you speak, you are doing no harm. If you prevent someone speaking, you are.
the use of propaganda, which is effective, trivially invalidates your statement asserting that speech can do no harm.
But who is propagandising who?
Who has the truth? Is it the government and the media, or are they the worst of the worst? How would you know what the truth is? Is the truth a consensus, or can everyone be wrong? In this technological age, it is easy to conceive how a false message can be disseminated widely. How can you discern truth from reality?
In the absence of certainty, you have to allow the free flow of information. You might think that people are screening/filtering information for you, but it is surely evident that they can also be doing this for their own benefit?
Information is power, as it drives your beliefs, and then your actions.
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#306I think the "blue check" verification on Twitter is its most powerful asset. The most important people in the world (culture icons, heads of state & companies, and subject matter experts) congregate there to share their thoughts. Personally I think Twitter would work best if it was left to be just that. I don't think anyone really cares about what I have to say, for example. I'm just some random guy who works at a so…
Well, I personally would rather read your thoughts than those of the "important" people you mentioned. You aren't trying to sell me something or gain attention, you probably have no agenda other than sharing what you think. If I reply you might actually read my reply, consider my words and write back.
Well gee I do appreciate that :) I like HN as an outlet for some interesting discussions that are relevant to me.
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#309Twitter is an internet megaphone. Plain and simple.
Some people use it like those assholes who drive around neighborhoods blaring something out of their portable car megaphones.
I heard them recently while traveling through small towns in Eastern Europe.
They usually blare political rhetoric or advertising.
Don't really see how you can stop them or their Twitter equivalents unless by using a point based reputation system.
Then however we won't be able to say we are different than China as far as the social credit thing goes.
Once the box is open, it's difficult to find all the pieces that wondered around the floor.
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How do you ensure non-recycling of identities? Even trying to bind to a real-world government ID isn't entirely effective and quite onerous.
don't worry about it? on good instances identity will be tied to membership in an LDAP or AD sort of thing, with membership handed out as a perk of employment for example. bad instances get treated like spam email sites.
This sounds way worse than email in the spamhaus etc blacklist sense, because all new instances will have to go round all the existing instances asking to be recognized as a "good" instance. This is very centralizing.