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Post by gardenhedge »

toyg wrote: post #177
ndr wrote: post #170

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Who is using Bluesky in the US? Whenever something big happens I keep getting x.com links from friends. Is it just my friends?

> Who is using Bluesky in the US? A lot of writers and creatives who could not stomach X.com anymore (and were then likely burned by Mastodon's geekiness). > Is it just my friends? If your friends are in the right-wing sphere (e.g. Joe Rogan listeners, etc), then yeah, likely.

Mentions of Joe Rogan like this set off alarm bells for me. It's never good faith comments

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Post by gardenhedge »

chownie wrote: post #543
Levitz wrote: post #500

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For a communicator, no audience means you lose everything. Why would he, or for that matter, anyone do that? Look at JK Rowling. Stood her ground, if it wasn't for her books allowing her advocacy, she'd have disappeared. Instead she has to endure being among the most hated millionaires for a good bunch of the left. Say Rogan sticks to his guns. He would face similar, never-ending attacks, no left-leaning figure could…

> Stood her ground, if it wasn't for her books allowing her advocacy, she'd have disappeared. Instead she has to endure being among the most hated millionaires for a good bunch of the left. This framing is laying on the narrative a little bit thick don't you think? It makes it seem like she's hated for being wealthy, when it is actually because she has been funding hate groups and calling for trans people to be physi…

Time for you to post sources

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by csallen »

afavour wrote: post #447
csallen wrote: post #398

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The fact that the left defined Joe Rogan as right-wing for not adhering to very specific far-left tenets (e.g. de-platforming personas non grata and cooperating with cancel culture) only served to push him and his listeners rightward, and thus became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“My views are everyone else’s fault” is such a prevalent and baffling claim these last few years. If you have a belief, own it.

It's not "my views," it's "my political allegiances." There's a difference.

Deciding what political party to vote for is entirely a matter of picking a team, which is entirely dependent on who is on that team. Of course it's "everyone else's fault" whose team you decide to pick. That is literally the game. People are picking representatives. Deciding what representatives to pick is 100% a case of who those representatives are, how they act, and what they believe.

If one team antagonizes you and attempts to harm you, and you therefore decide to vote for the other team, not only is that so reasonable as to be completely unsurprising, but it's also quite justifiable to say, "This is their fault."

Somehow people have forgotten that politics is about garnering willing votes, not smugly browbeating and shaming people about our superior morals and ethics.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by abletonlive »

hnlmorg wrote: post #347
hnlmorg wrote: post #39

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People already knew the value of data long before LLMs were popularised and web scraping has been a thing since the very beginnings of the web. Why you’re describing isn’t a recent phenomenon. Not even remotely. Facebook has never allowed people read only views to their platform. And Expert Stack Overflow like Quora used the same dark patterns you described too.

Getting down voted for stating a fact. Just goes to show how short some people’s memories are.

Well hey remember that time you were trying to argue BBC is some impartial source of news to a fault, or does your memory not last that long? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357693#45362865

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/britains-bbc-...

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate whether your perspective is worth sharing, or perhaps some time is needed internally to reposition what you think you know

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Post by maxlin »

platevoltage wrote: post #367
maxlin wrote: post #94

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It's good people like you who consider free speech some laughing matter don't lead the conversation. I don't even want to think how dim the situation would be without him having taken over.

Oh god are we still pretending X is a free speech platform.

No need for anyone for ever having had to pretend, there's no platform with the amount of criticism of even the owner of the platform as X.

If that confuses you, look up the definition. It really is defining to Freedom of Speech that people that don't like specific speech still support it!

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Post by maxlin »

nkohari wrote: post #129
maxlin wrote: post #94

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It's good people like you who consider free speech some laughing matter don't lead the conversation. I don't even want to think how dim the situation would be without him having taken over.

If you think that true "free speech" is possible on any platform with an algorithmic feed, I have a bridge to sell you.

When Musk took over he added the "Following" tab back as front and center. People do like following the algo still, but also frequent the Following tab, something many competitors still don't have.

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Post by chairmansteve »

mschuster91 wrote: post #477
chairmansteve wrote: post #214

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Yep. I ruthlessly anyone who induces the slightest negative emotion in me, be it annoyance, fear, anger etc. You are what you consume. I check the mainstream headlines once a day, kind of like checking the weather. There may be something I need to know. But then I move on. Getting worked up about politics is like shaking your fist at the rain clouds, completely pointless.

> Getting worked up about politics is like shaking your fist at the rain clouds, completely pointless. The problem with that attitude is that eventually democracy itself suffers, when people don't care no more. The word "democracy" itself points that out - "demos" means "the people".

"The problem with that attitude is that eventually democracy itself suffers".

I agree, but I'm not sure arguing with people on social media is an effective way of defending democracy.

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