Promotion of alternative social platforms policy • Hacker News Board

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by yusefnapora » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

I've never felt so free to speak!

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#22

Post by ProAm » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

Burn all the books.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by Our_Benefactors » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

What an utterly unenforceable distraction.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by m4lvin » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

Note that Mastodon is third in the list. I consider that a success.

1. They ignore you. 2. They laugh at you. 3. They fight you. <<<--- we are here. 4. You win.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by TulliusCicero » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

United857 wrote: post #13

FB and IG banned but Snap, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube are fine?

Would be hard to ban any mention of or links to YouTube, since it's not "just" a social media platform, but also used for video hosting.

Twitter of course hosts videos too, but it's a lot less advanced.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by yokem55 » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

It seems there might be a market for a social media directory service that can use some kind of signed message authentication to enable folks to link their media identies in a somewhat neutral way. I have not talent or ambition to build such a thing, but I figure it would probably be good thing. Or it already exists?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by MonkeyMalarky » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

Banning links to Facebook? Really?

This flying by the seat of the pants moderation style reminds me of friends in highschool running their own phpBB instances and IRC channels..

Also, Telegram, Discord, Tumblr aren't listed? Lol.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by Unklejoe » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

It’s actually kind of cool to see Mastodon being enough of a threat to be talked about these days.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by Signez » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

I don't see how this could not be qualified as a flagrant abuse of a dominant position, at least in the European Union.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

LAC-Tech wrote: post #18

Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!

That's exactly what they've done, and that's what Musk cannot stand.