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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by myko »

nkohari wrote: post #144
myko wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, BlueSky's non-algorithmic feed makes it really easy to avoid political ragebait and focus on tech accounts imo Really depends on who you're following

I'd love to give it another try and be proven wrong. At the beginning it felt like "old Twitter", before it became mainstream, because it was almost entirely software engineers who had left Twitter. After Trump took office it felt like a constant deluge of hand-wringing and people shaking their fists at clouds, and it was tough to immerse myself in it.

Make sure you stick to your "Following" feed and not "Discover" or even the feed dedicated to what your friends are into

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by mk89 »

myko wrote: post #136
mk89 wrote: post #130

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Not sure why it's so bad what the person wrote. There are studies showing how objectively bad Facebook and Instagram are for people, leading them to depression and so on. Isn't this hitting the fabric of our society? Our youth has severe issues also because of Zuckeberg, probably even more than due to Musk. Or is the fabric of our society only what's convenient to pick, such as whatever you guys dislike about Elon? S…

Agree with your overall thrust but there are degrees here, Musk performing a Nazi salute and pushing for fascist party takeovers globally makes him a larger target than Zuck (who seems more worried about his future MMA career than any societal impact, positive or negative).

I prefer a guy that performs a show like Musk to a Zuckeberg that is leading our youth to a very bad path - probably worse is only Tiktok. And all for some coins.

At least the guy says what he thinks, which you might agree or disagree with. And yes, in the meantime he is getting richer.

Not sure what's bad about that.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by runjake »

elAhmo wrote: post #70

Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.

I don’t have the same take, but the algorithm and site is so broken, the patterns so dark, that I’m down to maybe 5 minutes of X a week at best.

Everything is posted to get views, even from the more quality people. It’s ironic that I hear about “brainrot” the most on X, but it’s full of brainrot masquerading as valuable information.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by sd9 »

This seems like a fairly reasonable UX improvement. Unless I'm missing anything, it doesn't seem like this has nefarious intent, it's just there so that when a user clicks a link, they see the content as quickly as possible.

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It's astonishing how quickly discussion disintegrates when Musk is mentioned on HN. He really is such a divisive figure, with incredibly polarised language both in support and against him.

Normal reasoned arguments are just absent here. Sometimes when two people disagree, they can still have a nuanced conversation/argument about it. But not about Musk.

There are some opinions in this thread that I vehemently disagree with, but it's not worth escalating by adding my opinion to the pile.

It reminds me of that phenomenon where you read the newspaper and notice an article in your domain of expertise and it's riddled with errors! Then you turn the page, read an article about something else, and completely trust it. You somehow didn't transfer the knowledge that the newspaper is inaccurate to the new domain.

It makes me wonder what other discussions on HN (and elsewhere) are completely devoid of nuance and reason, but I just don't notice it.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

zetanor wrote: post #145
elAhmo wrote: post #70

Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.

Is the implication here that the core fabric of our society isn't otherwise being disrupted, or that this particular disruption should be viewed as exceptionally egregious?

YSK, it feels like the implication of the framing of your question is that you're suggesting it doesn't matter and nobody should care.

The disruption is egregious. It is notable and worth pushing back against, even if you don't view it as "exceptional".

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by giraffe_lady »

afavour wrote: post #98
nomdep wrote: post #81

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Building rockets, moon bases, making fossil fuels less critical… yes, I agree

Literal moon shots, while he contributes meaningfully to worsening conditions on Earth. His dismantling of USAID will have a more consequential effect than 90% of his fever dreams ever will.

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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by mapontosevenths »

DaSHacka wrote: post #121
afavour wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literal moon shots, while he contributes meaningfully to worsening conditions on Earth. His dismantling of USAID will have a more consequential effect than 90% of his fever dreams ever will.

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On October 22nd the US national debt passed $38 trillion, a record number. That is the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. We only hit $37 trillion in in August.

Further, unless you are in the top .1% of earners, or you live on tips (I somehow doubt there are many stippers on HN) your taxes will not decrease as a result of any of Trumps "cuts".

In short, you have been lied to and are celebrating unnecessary cruelty for the sake of cruelty which will save you personally $0.00 and which only further increases America's debts.

Worse the ridiculous tariffs are pushing us toward a recession that only AI investment has forestalled. AI investment now represents the single largest investment of capital in human history, and if that bubble bursts we will enter into what could potentially be the worst economic collapse in not only American history, but human history.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by bpavuk »

boringg wrote: post #71
robinhood wrote: post #66

I find it so sad that Twitter still gets traffic at all. Even if we put aside the super shady content on this platform (free speech, lol), the app, either on the web or mobile, has a sub-par user experience. I wish all the devs that I respect were using another platform.

X has a lock on live information that no one else has figured out yet not from a technical perspective but from an adoption perspective.

Well, there are platforms that did figure it out, but it's quite fractured. For US, you have Bluesky and Fediverse (Flipboard, Mastodon). In Ukraine, you can use Threads. Germany seems to love Bluesky and Mastodon, given the amount of independent Personal Data Servers and Mastodon instances located there.

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Post by meowface »

elAhmo wrote: post #70

Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.

I fully agree with your stance on Elon but I simply find Twitter too useful for too many things to quit. I've tried Bluesky and although I am very left-leaning on sociocultural topics I just find them too... annoying over there. (I'm closer to neoliberal on economic topics and that's also a bit of an issue there. And I like AI and they pretty much all deeply hate AI.)

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Post by 1234letshaveatw »

selectodude wrote: post #122
1234letshaveatw wrote: post #115

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Next time the party in power should consider not burning its reconciliation power on handing tens of billions to create a new secret police.

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