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Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

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Post by zenexer »

jpoesen wrote: post #24
jeremyjbowers wrote: post #4

Hi! Jeremy from The Post here. We’re still evaluating what it would mean for us to run an instance. But we’re definitely adding rel=me to our author profile pages ASAP.

Great news! But please run it on your main domain, as something like social.washingtonpost.com rather than washingtonpost.social. Running the instance under your own well-known domain equals instant verification and trust, whereas anyone can set up a .social.

On the other hand, you end up leaking cookies between the two subdomains when you take this approach. If one site gets hacked, so does the other. It’s better to use two separate domains and begin establishing trust for the new domain.

Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

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Post by [deleted] »

vintermann wrote: post #28
meltyness wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments have fairly stringent expectations compared to other sites, consider conforming more carefully to the guidelines[0], and you can post whatever you like. Not to be accusatory, but undersubstantiated hot-takes are frowned upon, because they don't result in productive conversation. Think debate / examine, rather than protest, basically. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think calling attention to WaPo being owned by the world's richest man ought to be in bounds, though. It's not really a hot take.

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Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

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Post by throwawaylinux »

chrisdhal wrote: post #30
wellthatsawrap6 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This is the same Washington Post that published an article[0] claiming "Shark Week" is racist, right? Sounds like a political agenda. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/05/shark-week-...

Excuse me the Washington Post was just reporting on what scientists said. Therefore if you question or mock this you are an anti-science racist. I mean who else but shark-adjacent racists would come up with the name "Great White"?

Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

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Post by infotogivenm »

zenexer wrote: post #31
jpoesen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great news! But please run it on your main domain, as something like social.washingtonpost.com rather than washingtonpost.social. Running the instance under your own well-known domain equals instant verification and trust, whereas anyone can set up a .social.

On the other hand, you end up leaking cookies between the two subdomains when you take this approach. If one site gets hacked, so does the other. It’s better to use two separate domains and begin establishing trust for the new domain.

Only if you don’t pin your cookies to the subdomain and/or are not using HTTPOnly. Even if you screw that up, cookie tossing in general is a rather low risk item; I don’t think its accurate at all to say “if one site gets hacked so does the other.”

Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

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Post by dang »

wellthatsawrap6 wrote: post #22
d23 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two accounts created in the last 3 hours just to troll this thread?

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Who cares about narrative? We're just here for interesting discussion. The problem is that ideological battle comments are predictable and therefore tedious, and evoke worse from others. When accounts use HN primarily for that, we ban them, because if we didn't, the entire site would be taken over by such stuff. It's the same regardless of which ideology or narrative the account is subscribing to—it's just as boring and destructive whichever way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance

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Post by ss108 »

vintermann wrote: post #28
meltyness wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Comments have fairly stringent expectations compared to other sites, consider conforming more carefully to the guidelines[0], and you can post whatever you like. Not to be accusatory, but undersubstantiated hot-takes are frowned upon, because they don't result in productive conversation. Think debate / examine, rather than protest, basically. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think calling attention to WaPo being owned by the world's richest man ought to be in bounds, though. It's not really a hot take.

Baselessly claiming that it's pushing an agenda for that reason might not be (I think it's an acceptable comment, even though wrong).

But I really doubt any poster was getting banned for that. A lot of us on here shoot stuff from the hip on hot button issues, on all sides of them, and aren't getting banned for it. His account(s) must be getting banned for some other reason, if his claim is true.

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