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Post by pibaker »

Barrin92 wrote: post #407
loufe wrote: post #378

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I'm not sure why Threads makes your cut here, trading one walking negative externality of person in control for another is not really a sell to most folks.

it has Fediverse interop. Skepticism obviously is warranted towards the owners but you can at least interact with an open protocol or consume threads content from a Mastodon instance, say.

Aren't many big mastodon instances talking about blocking Threads?

I don't like the mastodon culture but tbh I can't fault them for this move. Imagine if every post on r/all suddenly shows up on HN.

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Post by ryandrake »

chrysoprace wrote: post #401
Waterluvian wrote: post #347

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Reddit is the worst for this. I hate the disgusting, low class UX design where they let you read about 10-15 seconds of a page before locking you out. Though I think Pinterest takes the cake for being just the ugliest example of this.

Old Reddit is now completely unusable without an account. Maybe it's time for me to finally stop using it.

Interesting--I'm still using old.reddit.com with no problem, without an account. Maybe the change is not broadly rolled out?

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Post by MYEUHD »

j1elo wrote: post #274

Is there any jurisdiction where Nitter instances could be hosted while inconvenient Cease and Desist letters were... let's put it this way, rendered useless ?

There's an instance served over TOR, I'm not sure if it's up, but that's a convenient way to render C&D letters useless

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#tor

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Post by AlexandrB »

hiddencost wrote: post #417
Yiin wrote: post #321

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I don't understand being so emotionally attached to a personality to virtue signal about everything they're connected to. I'm no fan of the guy itself for many reasons, but it's just a service like any other, you either use it or you don't.

Have you considered that people actually have ethical beliefs and you're the one that is weird?

Have you considered that other's ethical beliefs may not match yours?

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Post by fauchletenerum »

nunez wrote: post #244

Okay, fine; no more X then. I need to start preparing for Redlib to meet the same fate, as this god-damned site will be the only other site I care about on the Internet left once that happens.

At first I thought Redlib was a pejorative term for how left-leaning Reddit is

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

runjake wrote: post #149
NoboruWataya wrote: post #6

What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.

It’s still fairly popular, but the statistics show that X usage is gradually declining. Elon claims that X is more popular than ever, but the platform doesn’t publicly release its own stats, and publicly available stats say otherwise. If you like AI and tech, there are some pretty thriving sub-communities. AI stuff, and a lot of tech stuff happens on X first. Claudebot/OpenClaw/Hermes all began on X months before I c…

What public stats say otherwise?

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Post by insane_dreamer »

Gigachad wrote: post #409
zanellato19 wrote: post #330

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Brazil is trying that and getting a bad look from the USA. Can you imagine a smaller nation doing the same? What would the USA do?

The US is fighting wars with everyone on everything at the same time. They don't have the resources to do anything about it. Every country will develop their own independent payment networks. China was right to block US tech companies to promote their own, most large and capable countries will do the same over time.

I wouldn't cite China as the example. If they had their way, every country would have its own firewall just like them, giving them significant control over information flow to their citizens. It works very well. That's why they have been pushing "internet sovereignty" for years.
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