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It will never stop being funny to me how you can take an argument in American politics, directly apply it to the opposite side, and it will still be mostly true.
Which would imply conservatives are big censorship advocates? Maybe rethink that.
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> it isn't a major problem anymore This is not true at all. The hard part isn't cloud vs. on-premise, it's the architecture. Most sites can either put all their data in a single massive database, or else have an obvious dimension to shard by (e.g. by user ID if users mostly interact with their own data). But sites where the data is many-to-many and there's a firehose of writes, of which Twitter is a prime example, ar…
> But sites where the data is many-to-many and there's a firehose of writes, of which Twitter is a prime example, are a nightmare to scale while remaining performant and reliable. Every single user gets an updated live feed of tweets drawn from every other user -- handling millions of users simultaneously is not easy. It is definitely not easy. But the core problem of this has been discussed since the release of Face…
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Which would imply conservatives are big censorship advocates? Maybe rethink that.
Two obvious examples are the pushback against lgbt awareness and elon’s use of twitter to algorithmically suppress the reach of leftwing accounts.
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> a hall of shame Usually that's the opposite that happen with these kind of people. They are going to look forward on being the at the top of the leaderboard, like a child doing stupid things only to get noticed by its parents.
Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social
As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.
Lol, I got curious about nostr, and it's the same thing, with an extra layer of "crypto currency will save the world"
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Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social
There was a script I once saw for Twitter where it blocked all users within some follower/followee radius of a set group of people. For public discourse, I wonder what the right level of agreeable "echo-chambering" is.
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Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social
There was a script I once saw for Twitter where it blocked all users within some follower/followee radius of a set group of people. For public discourse, I wonder what the right level of agreeable "echo-chambering" is.
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I wonder how the world would change if ads just disappeared I get things have to be sold but damn it's out of control
A lot of free services would disappear if they were unable to make some sort of ad-based income. Some people would be unable to do anything except whatever was provided by their government without ad-supported services (thinking Google products, YouTube, etc.) It would eventually go back to the way it was in the old days - a few actually-useful-but-struggling sites, a few paid-for services that might or might not sur…
edit: I'm more talking about the influence on people's minds whatever the ad is in particular the bad ones/narrative
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Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social
It has an "Impersonation" tag: "Pretending to be someone else without permission." Dunno if that's accurate though. But let's be real: Jordan B. Peterson on Bluesky is not going to be a different Jordan B. Peterson than he is anywhere else. If you don't want to interact with Jordan B. Peterson on e.g. Twitter, then you probably don't want to interact with him on Bluesky either.
However, feels virtue signal like to block someone that isn't there. Might as well block "random jerk." What is the value of blocking people by name that may not exist?