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Yes really: you can get this experience with Twitter: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
Edit: I apologize that my original post was dismissive of your effort to help people use twitter.
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Edit: I apologize that my original post was dismissive of your effort to help people use twitter.
That's unnecessarily dismissive of someone trying their best to share some tips. It's not like they charged you to read it.
This CEO did the same thread 6 months ago and was blasted off the internet. You can see his thread here: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440 edit/ Guess it is working now? The most important post in his older thread: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514939100444311560 He never ever justifies this point. The world absolutely has not changed in the context of censorship. Censorship apologetics notwi…
> The world absolutely has not changed in the context of censorship. Citation needed
As I said in my post, he never justifies this point. To then turn it upon me to prove a negative?
Devils advocating against myself: I do believe the parler deplatforming is the proof for what he says. The world has indeed changed, but anyone who knows the details sure isn't saying why. Why? Because revealing how the world has changed, in the usa, would have some pretty serious consequences.
I don't know. I wish I could have a closed door, off record, tell me everything, conversation with yishan to have him tell me why he believes the world changed, in the context of social media censorship.
In terms of public verified knowledge, nothing at all has changed in the context of censorship. I stand by the point. Elon obviously stands by this as well. Though elon's sudden multiweek delays on unbanning... im expecting he suddenly knows as well.
>You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.
Guess I'm not allowed to reply again today. No discussion allowed on HN.
I do find it funny they say 'you're posting too fast' but I haven't been able to post on HN or reply to you for an hour. How "fast" am I really going. I expect it will be a couple more hours before I am allowed to post again. How dare I discuss a forbidden subject.
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Real society is not that polarized. If you talk to real people they mostly have moderate political opinions. But they don't tweet about politics. Twitter is not a real place.
Society is a closed system, twitter is not outside of society. The people on twitter are real people (well, mostly, probably), and have real political opinions. If you talk to people, by and large they'll profess moderate opinions, because in person discussions still trigger politeness and non-confrontational emotions in most people, so the default 'safe' thing to say is the moderate choice, no matter what their true…
What Internet does have is ease of changing masks and joining diverse groups. Trying something unusual without reprecussions appeal to a lot of people who usually simply dont have time to join such groups offline.
The real problem is that unfortunately propoganda has evolved too with all new research about human phychology, behaviors and fallacies. Abusing weaknesses of monkey brain on scale is relatively easy and profitable.
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To be honest, I would not disagree with that. Very 'the only winning move is not to play'.
To be honest, and maybe this will be panned, but the real answer is for people to grow thicker skin and stop putting one's feelings on a pedestal above all.
Reading these threads on twitter is like listening to a friend having a bad mdma trip replaying his whole emotional life to you in a semi incoherent diarrhea like stream of thoughts Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash
What got me was him weaving in (2-3 times) self promotion tweets of some tree planting company he funds/founded(?). He basically personally embedded ads into his thread, which is actually kind of smart I suppose, but very confusing as a reader.
The saving grace may be that both small enough volume and sufficiently interesting to his audience to be just below the threshold.
Here's a radical idea: let me moderate my own shit! Twitter is a subscription-based system (by this, I mean that I have to subscribe to someone's content) so if I subscribe to someone and don't like what they say then buh-bye! Let me right click on a comment/tweet (I don't use social media so not sure of the exact terminology the kids use these days) with the options of: - Hide this comment - Hide all comments in thi…
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Who is doing a good job at scale? Is there really anyone we can look to other than people who “have experience, having made all the mistakes, and figured it out through trial and error”?
Sorry if this wasn't clear, but that's just his perspective. Mine is that they're a bunch of clowns with little to offer anyone. Who cares what this person thinks more than you, I, or a player for the Miami Dolphins. Twitter is going to have to moderate at least exploitative and a ton of abusive content, eventually. I don't understand how this rant is helpful in the slightest. Seemed like a bunch of mumbo jumbo. You…
Does anyone else think it's brilliant that he put advertisements inside his own thread?
Brilliant? For immediately getting large amounts of readers to click away and discrediting himself into the future, sure that might be brilliant I guess.
It makes him seem desperate for attention and clueless.
Reading these threads on twitter is like listening to a friend having a bad mdma trip replaying his whole emotional life to you in a semi incoherent diarrhea like stream of thoughts Please write a book, or at the very least an article... posting on twitter is like writing something on a piece of paper, showing it to your best friend and worst enemy before throwing it in the trash