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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by robby_w_g »

hobs wrote: post #249
memish wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't confuse tolerance for free speech with the dubious concept of hate speech and its selective application.

Ah yes, that's why he banned all those journalists who spent time reporting on the lawsuits against him, because he's all for free speech. Nah, the dude is for his brand of free speech, which is you can hate the people he hates and you can do what he likes and you can stay on his website.

Interesting how you provided a direct counter example and your comment got flagged for it. I thought the free speech absolutist crowd wouldn’t mind someone disagreeing with them

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by doublerabbit »

Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141
jpmattia wrote: post #115

It wasn't like Twitter's business had a large technical barrier-to-entry. And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. Good luck to Substack on eating twitter's lunch! Edit: That said, I've found mastodon (@jpmattia@mastodon.mit.edu) to be a much more pleasant interaction compared to twitter, so I'm curious what the landscape looks like in a couple of years.

The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

Discord attacking Twitch too

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by pantalaimon »

jimsimmons wrote: post #221
Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

You should look up global search volumes and Google share of it. There’s no dent

If AI assisted search gets larger it might be to Google what Google was to AltaVista

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by NikolaNovak »

nemo44x wrote: post #190
riffraff wrote: post #176

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Why would mastodon growth be pedo related? Why would anyone in any illegal content space want to have their content federated outside of it ?

https://www.secjuice.com/mastodon-child-porn-pedophiles/

That's the first I heard about this, but I don't really follow the space (neither Mastodon nor CSAM). Is "SecJuice" a reputable source / how legit is the report?

The one instance I have any prior awareness of, the mastodon creator saying search is not desired due to negative social dynamics, everywhere else it was presented as a privacy and anonymity behaviour - crucially, both from those who agreed and disagreed (which makes intuitive sense; on one hand I dislike e.g. Facebook not being publicly searchable some of the time, at the same time I don't want my content crawled by randos all the time either). This is the first place I've seen that frames it as explicitly CSAM related.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by nicenewtemp84 »

markstos wrote: post #270
jimsimmons wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should look up global search volumes and Google share of it. There’s no dent

I used Bing today. I’m denting.

I used bing chat (supposedly using gpt4) and it was far more annoying than openai free chatgpt (supposedly using gpt3.5)

Somehow Microsoft found a way to make it worse?

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by pantalaimon »

Confiks wrote: post #66

Compare the two homepages without cookies [1][2]. The rounded buttons in orange instead of Twitter-blue. The footer nagbar. The similar navigation menu. Following the whole banning-saga my impression was that Notes was a genuine extension of the Substack platform, but it being a frontend clone explains why such a tantrum was thrown by Musk. [1] https://twitter.com/ [2] https://substack.com/notes

Is there any way to access Substack Notes without an account?

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by [deleted] »

Cardinal7167 wrote: post #141
jpmattia wrote: post #115

It wasn't like Twitter's business had a large technical barrier-to-entry. And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. Good luck to Substack on eating twitter's lunch! Edit: That said, I've found mastodon (@jpmattia@mastodon.mit.edu) to be a much more pleasant interaction compared to twitter, so I'm curious what the landscape looks like in a couple of years.

The great shake up has started. Google pissing their pants with AIs abrupt arrival, Twitter dying a death by a million cuts, Facebook in mid-air making their VR play, the tech skyline will look very different in 5 years.

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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by a4isms »

czbond wrote: post #175
jpmattia wrote: post #115

It wasn't like Twitter's business had a large technical barrier-to-entry. And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. Good luck to Substack on eating twitter's lunch! Edit: That said, I've found mastodon (@jpmattia@mastodon.mit.edu) to be a much more pleasant interaction compared to twitter, so I'm curious what the landscape looks like in a couple of years.

Twitter's barrier wasn't that it was technically hard - it was that it was free and had critical mass. There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views

There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views

This says so much more about you than about anyone leaving Twitter.

I'm a person of colour. Do I have not have a reason to leave a web site that platforms people who espouse the belief that my children are a disease that needs to be eradicated with fire?[1] Of course I do, and you know that. I do not have a "disdain for Musk's political views," to put it like that is to suggest that white supremacy is a view no different than believing in universal healthcare.

Your rhetoric is a shallow and obvious attempt to invalidate and dismiss other people's concerns.

And while you have a right to your beliefs, no matter how much they lack empathy, no matter how much they are divorced from a belief that other people are not NPCs and are truly entitled to their own world views...

This type of talk is not in the best traditions of Hacker News, a site that yes, has a far more Libertarian slant than I personally hold, but also yes, attempts to hold its discussions and debates to a higher standard than you display in this comment.

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[1] Other people of colour take a different view on whether to use Twitter, and that's the entire point of not dismissing other people's views. They have their own strategies for making the world a better place, and I don't have to dismiss their choices as posturing, I can respectfully make different choices for myself.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by ugh0 »

sundaeofshock wrote: post #209
czbond wrote: post #175

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Twitter's barrier wasn't that it was technically hard - it was that it was free and had critical mass. There still isn't much of a reason to move away from it, except for those who want to signal their disdain for Musk's political views

You are ignoring the whole Verification process. It was the only platform where users could have interactions with prominent people in a variety of fields and know the interaction was legitimate. That mattered! Killing the verification system chased away many blue checks, who happened to generate a huge amount of traffic for the site. Musks politics on their own didn’t create problems. However, Musk’s tolerance for h…

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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by nicenewtemp84 »

yifanl wrote: post #162
pornel wrote: post #73

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Losing only 24 million sounds like a bargain. Imagine spending 40 billion to pay 1 billion more in interest each year.

I mean consider also: Imagine being in a position where you can spend 40 billion and it doesn't wipe you out.

Imagine spending only 30% of your net worth and getting to experiment with buying and growing one of the most used and talked about sites on the internet.

If I spent 30% of my net worth I could buy a condo in the bay, possibly. Although odds are it would be worth close to that if I needed to sell it.

But many people spend 30% of their net worth trying to start businesses with almost no traction. Musk spent 30% to buy something known internationally.

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