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Note that Mastodon is third in the list. I consider that a success. 1. They ignore you. 2. They laugh at you. 3. They fight you. <<<--- we are here. 4. You win.
No one outside of tech nerds or PR departments is going to get seriously into Mastodon. My wife and her lib/moderate friends checked it out and went right back to Twitter. Too confusing, one husband was banned from one instance and caused issues getting onto others, hard to understand why.
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Would be hard to ban any mention of or links to YouTube, since it's not "just" a social media platform, but also used for video hosting. Twitter of course hosts videos too, but it's a lot less advanced.
What is an advanced video ?
"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.
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I agree. I'm not sure why, but there's something about Musk's behavior that really irks a lot of HN readers.
To be honest, for some reason I can't pinpoint [0] I feel a tremendous sense of schadenfreude against Musk. Hopefully that hasn't affected my comment posts too much.
[0] I'm somewhat politically conservative, so I don't think it's that. I'll have to reflect on this.
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I moved to Gitlab and stayed there. Principles and all that.
It's breaking my heart to see Gitlab's recent behaviour (e.g., deleting old projects, removing sensible pricing options). I want to give them my money but no longer can because of how prohibitively expensive it is for me to buy the features I'd want. It's clear they're struggling to compete with a post-acquisition GitHub that effectively has infinite budget from Microsoft.
I remember back in the old days when Twitter got a lot of flack for preventing Instagram link previews. EDIT: I got the order wrong, see replies.
Wasn't it the other way around? Instagram disallowed previews on twitter
I think Instagram wasn't annotating their pages with either OpenGraph metadata or Twitter card metadata, and so you got a bland link vs a rich preview.
It seems like Instagram _were_ publishing og:image tags at one point, but then removed it. See, for example, this 2019 reddit post [1].
Instagram then announced a change to this policy in December of 2021 [2] and now annotates with og:image again.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/dn2wsw/saving_an...
[2]: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/introducing-b...
(from another thread) Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU? Related reading: * Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures... . Any EU resident can file a co…
Awesome in stupidity, because there is also not a fake good reason like "there are bad content that we don't control there so we want to protect our users" but just "you should stay here and we forbid any link to a platform we don't own". Also that it is not a rule that is there since ever, like apple could have done, but a sudden change after an already controversial situation. It is awesome to see how Elon is behav…