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Post by scandox »

zmgsabst wrote: post #141
threeseed wrote: post #138

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> Older people just ruin social media platforms. Not really. The best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names and can provide unique insight into topics that you would never get anywhere else. For example all of the open source intelligence with Ukraine or learning about the intricacies of Brexit from actual trade negotiators. Whereas if you look at Reddit right now it is i…

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I'm really surprised at this take on this case. Depp is a terrible figurehead to choose for such a cause.

I've never felt oppressed as a male so I can't really comment on the more general aspect of your view.

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Post by naoqj »

andrewzah wrote: post #145
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> Older people just ruin social media platforms. Not really. The best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names and can provide unique insight into topics that you would never get anywhere else. For example all of the open source intelligence with Ukraine or learning about the intricacies of Brexit from actual trade negotiators. Whereas if you look at Reddit right now it is i…

"he best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names" Real names don't mean anything. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have people with real names and there's still disgusting behavior and rude interactions. Real names don't mean anything when you're reduced from a person to pixels on a screen, separated by hundreds or thousands of miles. Reddit provides solace in that people can hav…

> So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.

You think?

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Post by wodenokoto »

Facebook used to be a place where you shared with friends, but a mix between putting average number of friends as a KPI and twitter envy the platform is now mostly content aimed at a beyond network audience.

Facebook did wise in making messenger it’s own app and opening up for an alternative with more intimate sharing.

Adopting stories was a great business move although it seems to be mostly instagram that has story adoption, which ironically is the platform that is most about broadcasting of all of metas platforms.

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Post by edgyquant »

52358 wrote: post #66

I wonder how many people here are aware of Snapchat's thriving underground OnlyFans-like ecosystem. I also wonder how much of that is driving Snap's user metrics. As far back as 2014, I remember there being a huge ecosystem of "premium" snaps (sometimes known as "prem(ium) girls"), whereby you would pay the account owner a one time or recurring fee for access to a "premium" snapchat account where the owner posts nude…

Is this why Tinder is now flooded with girls who only have their snap in their bio (or try and get you to snap asap?)

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Post by penjelly »

kart23 wrote: post #104

I'm in college. I see a lot of people doubting snap's popularity in this thread. Literally everyone has snapchat and most people use it on a daily basis. I do think they provide the overall best group chat experience out of any app, you can just send text if you want, but also save funny pictures or video that people send. And only the good stuff gets saved, so you're usually not dealing with a bunch of clutter and r…

to me Snapchat features feel more like actual real life communications then say... telegram/imessage, it encourages a more personal connection

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Post by penjelly »

rattlesnakedave wrote: post #103

Snapchat is fun for stupid pics between friends that are meant to be ephemeral, and that’s why I like it. It’s the last social platform where my friends are creating the majority of their content posted as opposed to re-sharing something. HOWEVER- their “discover” pane is full of the most repugnant, degenerate, or otherwise braindead bullshit I have ever seen in my life. If I could pay to turn it off permanently they…

I've noticed the discover tab has improved over the last year, its got more "real" shows now. but yeah i still avoid it

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Post by shotta »

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What I don't get is why Snap never tried to build a good product around that and give creators (uhmm) a good way to monetize their profiles. This seems like such an obvious thing to do to me. Why would you give up on that usage and allow it to move to OnlyFans and other platforms if you already have it? And even more, penalize your audience for such practice. And same question to Instagram team (I left the company a…

Apple does not allow adult content on the app store. For example, OnlyFans does not have an iOS app as a result. If Snap were to openly embrace adult content, they could risk getting booted from the app store.

Twitter and Reddit (and third party clients like Apollo) are allowed to bypass this.

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Post by src »

Hello HN - I'm an engineering manager at Snap focused on mobile app performance tools. If you're impressed with Snap's product and are an engineer obsessed with mobile performance, hit me up. We're actively hiring in this space!

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Post by zmgsabst »

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Depp was found by a UK court to have assaulted Heard, on a dozen occasions and put her in “fear for her life” three times [1]. So for me it seems clear that they are both abusive and not worthy of anyone's time. But my point was that the Depp/Heard issue has very much crossed the line into being completely irrational and morphed into a generalised anti-women sentiment. And it's very much radicalising the younger men…

I think you should investigate deeper.

I think the reason you’re not understanding is because you don’t understand the facts that are driving their behavior — behavior which makes sense when you view this trial as “not even Johnny Depp can get justice when a woman lies about him”.

I find it genuinely interesting that you assume a group is irrational rather than consider you’ve been misinformed.

There are many flaws in the UK case, involving the judge discounting the evidence of third parties while taking at face value the claims of Ms Heard.

I would suggest watching the feed or summaries of the Virginia case, with Rekeita Law and Legal Bytes being two prominent channels covering the trial — both featuring panels of attorneys commenting on the case.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbkjX3E0IhuUfPzL0FjSPaw

https://www.youtube.com/c/LegalBytesMedia

I would recommend this Legal Bytes video for a primer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMKmcRF38FU

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