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This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on this when shortly you’ll be able to see a different timeline.
Slight twist on dead internet theory. It's not that the internet is full of bots, it's that the internet is full of self promotion. Finding real people to have real conversations is more difficult because so many want your engagement/attention for their "brand". Similar to the Black Mirror episode about social credit score.
The hyper commercialization of the internet has turned people into spam bots. That’s why todays internet, with billions of users feels less populated than what we had in the early to mid 2000s.
And reddit has just turned into the same hundred jokes repeated over and over again with the same desperate-to-look-clever pun thread at the top.
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Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldview through a political lens. I think my previous comment made a coherent argument that you can’t talk about all important things all the time. The fact that you’ve ignored it make…
Dude, take a break and come back to this in a day or two. I have not said that you're a rich white guy, and I have not said that you're a racist. If you want to talk about this with less emotion and with the assumption that I do listen to you and respect you, then we can do that.
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Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldview through a political lens. I think my previous comment made a coherent argument that you can’t talk about all important things all the time. The fact that you’ve ignored it make…
Dude, take a break and come back to this in a day or two. I have not said that you're a rich white guy, and I have not said that you're a racist. If you want to talk about this with less emotion and with the assumption that I do listen to you and respect you, then we can do that.
Meta is courting the risk of going full Orkut, where people come by to check out early hype on an unfinished product, find the feature set underwhelming, and head off elsewhere. The tradeoff with getting tens of millions of users at launch is that it will be harder to get a disappointed user to come back and try again than it was to get them to try the first time. I'm sure for the dev team this is a busy time, and th…
It feels like it is neverending AB testing or neverending beta.
You don't have to use it. I don't understand this obsession to have to do something because it's trendy.
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I’m not commenting on your theory, but what I love about HN is that, for the most part, people comment purely to talk about a topic. There’s very little self promotion. It’s very nice.
Unless you're posting a show HN, in which case every brother and their mother chimes in with "this is nice but here's my cloud service that does a similar thing but better" sideswipes
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Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldview through a political lens. I think my previous comment made a coherent argument that you can’t talk about all important things all the time. The fact that you’ve ignored it make…
Dude, take a break and come back to this in a day or two. I have not said that you're a rich white guy, and I have not said that you're a racist. If you want to talk about this with less emotion and with the assumption that I do listen to you and respect you, then we can do that.
If this is an incorrect interpretation of your words, I apologize. But maybe next time, you shouldn’t try to reduce people to their sex, class, and gender.
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I know it sounds very “old man yells at cloud” but I truly miss many parts of the old internet, when YouTube was new and social media was still in its fledgling phase. There are a lot of perks and quality of life improvements thanks to all the advancements, but being subjected to 4 ads per 11 minutes on YouTube, Google being much less useful thanks to SEO optimization and all the self-indulgent self- promotion on jus…
Grab YouTube premium to not see ads. You have to pay for it somehow, either you watch ads for free or you swap out your LTV for cash by just paying outright. This isn’t a mark of degradation at all. “Back in the day” of non-monetization isn’t sustainable for any decent length of time because eventually the people donating (VCs) will want a return or will run out of money.