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The Frustration Loop

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Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by yowlingcat »

jaggederest wrote: post #47
willdr wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't mean to cause offense, but maybe you haven't built a following yet? I see plenty of Lives with 0 viewers.

Just out of curiosity, how would you build a following if none of your videos ever receives any views? I'm not someone who uses the tikity tok but it seems like an intractable problem.

Leave noteworthy comments on other peoples videos, make noteworthy stitches of theirs. Embrace remix culture, essentially. It only seems like an intractable problem to non power users of social media.

Re: The Frustration Loop

#92

Post by wetpaws »

cobbaut wrote: post #88
tofurocks wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is matt@gmail.com you can receive to Matt+1@gmail.com, matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.

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Re: The Frustration Loop

#93

Post by Vinnl »

surrTurr wrote: post #81
Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

Alternatives if you don't have your own domain: - Fastmail masked emails ( https://app.fastmail.com ) - Firefox relay ( https://relay.firefox.com/ ) - SimpleLogin ( https://simplelogin.io/ ) There's many more.

And even if you do have your own domain (I do), for one-offs these services are still useful, since they're not relatable to you, and motivated spammers can't just guess new addresses for you. For example, y'all can send me an email at 0yiulnql3@mozmail.com, but if I get lots of spam there, I'll disable it and you'll never know what other Firefox Relay masks I have.

That, and the UI for disabling masks is much easier than having to create a new filter.

Re: The Frustration Loop

#94

Post by scns »

surrTurr wrote: post #81
Nevermark wrote: post #76

I came up with a simple way to eliminate spam in my email, without any third party filtering. I have my own domain name for email. My email box accepts anything that goes the domain. I.e. a catchall email account. However, I give a different email address to every site and service. I.e. sitea@mydomain.com, site2@mydomain.com This lets my email reliably get auto sorted by who its from. But I also use a consistent form…

Alternatives if you don't have your own domain: - Fastmail masked emails ( https://app.fastmail.com ) - Firefox relay ( https://relay.firefox.com/ ) - SimpleLogin ( https://simplelogin.io/ ) There's many more.

Seconding Firefox Relay. Got premium to give Mozilla money to waste on CEO compesation /s. Dislike sarcasm a lot, still had to do it.

Re: The Frustration Loop

#95

Post by Vinnl »

cobbaut wrote: post #88
tofurocks wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can do something similar with Gmail - if your email is matt@gmail.com you can receive to Matt+1@gmail.com, matt+2 etc. Although some websites reject this format.

While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.

Or worse, they'll accept it, but then some backend system trips over it, and now the product you ordered never ships to you, but customer service doesn't know how to refund it either.

Re: The Frustration Loop

#96

Post by pjc50 »

tareqak wrote: post #79
petre wrote: post #54

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Don't use Twitter for government comms I guess? It's a private system with its own rules. They can degrade the experience as much as they like if the system flags one as a troll, regardless of their being part of an organization.

Well, here is the thing: maybe a troll can use the idea that a comments on a government official's account is a public forum and demand that the third party remove the troll flag, or demand that the troll flag be ignored for government accounts. > U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled on May 23 that comments on the president's account, and those of other government officials, were public forums…

Surely the solution then is to block government officials from the platform. Bad for engagement but keeps your "no, really, this is a private forum" status.

(Rather like how lots of non-US banks block US nationals from having an account even if they're resident in the bank's country, because of the paperwork overhead)

Re: The Frustration Loop

#97

Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

mc10 wrote: post #43
pavel_lishin wrote: post #32

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Password managers typically only fill specified fields - username & password - and leave others alone.

Maybe I'm thinking specifically of 1Password which can store your previously-filled out form fields as well as autofill fields like address or credit card number.

It would store the defaults, I suppose.

I got the idea from a book. Can't remember which, but it may have been in the early oughties, or even last century (and the book called it "Honeypot Fields").

The nice thing was, the user didn't have any friction at all. They had a subject and message. No CAPTCHAS, no math problems. Nothing.

The form was on a site with a fair bit of exposure and traffic. Another similar site used Contact Form 7 (or whatever the predecessor to it was), and we would get fairly regular spams. This was a plugin that I hand-crafted.

Re: The Frustration Loop

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Post by pjc50 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #74
jonny_eh wrote: post #57

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Share your videos as a response to a comment on HN.

In other words: be a spammer. Yay, incentives on social media sites are totally not perverted.

The problem is that "getting people to see your stuff" is the route to monetization, and therefore is horribly choked with spam that stacks the odds against real humans.

Re: The Frustration Loop

#99

Post by pjc50 »

edg5000 wrote: post #53

How about disabling robot crawling on all blogs by default (and adding nofollow, as you mentioned). Then, manual moderation will allow people to earn to have their blog allowed for crawlers. To make this clear to users, when posting content, the following is displayed: "Note: This content will not be indexed by search engines unless it has passed our manual review process."

They already do that. Spammers don't read.
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