Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
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#2It is a mistake to rely on third party login.
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#3I've run out of the mental energy to give Musk the benefit of the doubt. His capricious and poor decision-making is ruining one of my favorite products day and day. It's so frustrating to watch, a complete train wreck in slow motion. I'm simultaneously beyond caring and unable to ignore it at this point.
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#4What has Twitter done exactly?
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#5Do organisations tend to regret bans, especially if they are willing to hold firm for a few days?
As Reddit banned all its creepy communities, people had a fit for a few days and made similar proclamations about how Voat would beat them as a result, and then life went on. It didn't destroy Reddit at all. Same with the crackdown on the conspiracy subreddits. Off they went to Voat. But Voat is gone and Reddit remains.
Twitter ended up banning Donald Trump and people discussed how it would be a watershed moment that would spawn this massive backlash and fuel Parler and Gab. But Twitter remains king. Parler and Gab haven't been something I have heard of in months.
All of these claims that a ban will cause significant damage to Twitter require people to fear that they will be next. Does Substack really have that kind of reach?
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#6Do organisations tend to regret bans, especially if they are willing to hold firm for a few days? As Reddit banned all its creepy communities, people had a fit for a few days and made similar proclamations about how Voat would beat them as a result, and then life went on. It didn't destroy Reddit at all. Same with the crackdown on the conspiracy subreddits. Off they went to Voat. But Voat is gone and Reddit remains.…
Is the Twitter example entirely true though? Arguably Twitters actions helped fuel its buyout from an activist billionaire. That's hardly non-consequence.
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#7Damn the weekly ""mistake"" that Musk makes. That reminds me of this quote by a famous hypocrite "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!"
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#8What has Twitter done exactly?
paulg@ is claiming that Twitter no longer allows you to like or retweet any tweets that link to Substack, like this one:
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1644344779507916805
(note that this tweet indeed has zero of both, unlikely virtually everything else paulg has ever posted)
And I'm not even seeing the tweet in the OP's link, I had to dig it up from paulg's Twitter feed.
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#9What has Twitter done exactly?
>Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-...
>Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674936/twitter-marking-s...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35482222
Re: Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
#10There's no second tweet in the linked thread. The tweet pg is talking about is this one [0]. Seems like Twitter disabled retweets and likes of tweets that link to Substack.