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Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by hundchenkatze »

molodec wrote: post #39

There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…

The minimum length may work for good-faith actors, but how would you prevent trolls from pasting in 500 characters of lorem ipsum or other generated text and then adding their one-liner at the beginning or end?

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by skrebbel »

cambalache wrote: post #44

Unnecessary "complicated" name? Check! Butt-ugly interface? Check! Mentioning the technology used to build it as it were a feature? Check! So a typical tool created by a developer who thinks the average guy think and act like them.

I can't figure out what made you decide to post this to HN. The author of this app has obviously been having a great time. Why the sour grapes? What are you so mad about?

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by hundchenkatze »

smlckz wrote: post #35

I thought, great! I now am curious about how it was implemented. So I did: $ git clone http://git.bytex64.net/blerg.git Cloning blerg... error: Empty reply from server (curl_result = 52, http_code = 0, sha1 = 95d56e6cc [...]) [...] Sigh! How can we look at the C code? [EDIT: now looked at other comments about how this is a joke... is this error intentional?]

I don't think the error is intentional, the site was created 10 years ago. My guess is that something happened to the repo since then.

https://bytex64.net/blog/e2302

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by cosmojg »

hundchenkatze wrote: post #51
molodec wrote: post #39

There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…

The minimum length may work for good-faith actors, but how would you prevent trolls from pasting in 500 characters of lorem ipsum or other generated text and then adding their one-liner at the beginning or end?

Moderation, no?

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

molodec wrote: post #39

There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…

My plan to fix social media was something like Captcha mixed with an IQ test.

So if we can detect you said something about climate change, you see a little popup asking you if water boils at 100 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit? If you don't get it right, you are no longer allowed to post or reply to climate change topics.

Did you just say Trump was the BEST or WORST President in History? I'd like to see if you can name 5 Presidents before 1980? If not, I don't think we need your opinions on historical ranking.

The tests wouldn't be hard. And they would easily be Googleable, but there would be 10 second time limit for them to be completed.

It would probably be the least popular social media company ever created. This is also a terrible idea, because the users that are entitled to post, probably would not be humble and might be jerks.

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by dnautics »

f6v wrote: post #27
jimis wrote: post #2

I was looking for Twitter alternatives and found this one, which is old and stale but looks like a very interesting experiment! Quoting its frontpage: But what's wrong with Twitter? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. There are two aspects of Twitter that just bug me as an engineer: Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad idea. As the service grew, I'm sure…

> Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is fine The sad thing is that way too many developers never learn that programming language and framework is not the biggest bottleneck.

i think it's pretty clear that you can get really far with RoR too, if I'm not mistaken Github is still mostly RoR.

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by mrspeaker »

molodec wrote: post #39

There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…

I was wondering what the effect of imposing a "minimum time to reply" would be. For instance, if I wanted to reply to your post - I would need to indicate my intent to reply, then after X minutes (at least 15, but ideally more) I would be able to respond.

The idea is to stop people posting the first thing that pops into their head: hopefully taking more time to formulate a response (or reconsidering if it was valuable to say anything at all).

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by molodec »

hundchenkatze wrote: post #51
molodec wrote: post #39

There is too much trolling on Twitter as the character limit does not allow for any serious argument. An ambiguous one-liner from a popular individual triggers thousands of replies and retweets. I've been thinking that we need a Twitter alternative, but with a minimum limit on the number of characters and no images or gifs. Setting a minimum limit to perhaps 300 - 500 characters will eliminate much of the trolling an…

The minimum length may work for good-faith actors, but how would you prevent trolls from pasting in 500 characters of lorem ipsum or other generated text and then adding their one-liner at the beginning or end?

Sure, it is possible to find hols and abuse any platform. I am not good at writing, and I always hated the minimum pages limit on essays at schools, but now I think these limits are necessary to enforce thinking and providing more details into your argument. Twitter discourages that. High profile individuals can easily manipulate people and markets by saying a few words and leaving a lot of room for interpretation like Elon Musk recently suggesting that everyone should be using Signal without giving any context and specifying what that Signal was and caused an unrelated to the Signal chat app stock to jump 1000%.

Re: Blërg, a microblogging platform

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Post by bytex64 »

smlckz wrote: post #35

I thought, great! I now am curious about how it was implemented. So I did: $ git clone http://git.bytex64.net/blerg.git Cloning blerg... error: Empty reply from server (curl_result = 52, http_code = 0, sha1 = 95d56e6cc [...]) [...] Sigh! How can we look at the C code? [EDIT: now looked at other comments about how this is a joke... is this error intentional?]

Sorry about that! Should be working now.

Here's something I never thought I'd say: Perl made breaking changes. My guess is additional strict things broke the gitweb CGI script (which was hopelessly out of date anyway).

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