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Dreamwidth contains lots of spammy blogs.
You think this is a justification to do this? On Hacker News? Really? I do not understand the mindset of some people
In the past there was a news about Paypal banning Dreamwidth. Not sure if its related: "About six months after opening, PayPal -- our payment processor at the time -- demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms) that was legal and protected speech but that they felt violated their terms for using PayPal." HN discussion on it: ht…
demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms Livejournal was a hotbed of dubious fanfic (shall we say) in which one or more characters was underage. Maybe such a thing is technically not illegal but even so, many left that platform once it started to develop a reputation for it. Then it went bust and was sold to a Russian company…
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The lack of an app is something for it. Literally every app of some website has the worse experience. Even worse the website will keep begging you to install their shitty app.
I'd say Apollo (or Reddit is Fun on Android) is a heck of a lot better than new Reddit, and about as good as old Reddit. And Google Maps' app beats their site by a county mile on iOS. There's no good Hacker News client for mobile though, at least one that's better than the web page. Not that I'm saying someone should make one either, the site is responsive as heck.
If you use FB's url debugger it gives the message: "We can't review this website because the content doesn't meet our Community Standards. If you think this is a mistake, please let us know" So an unhelpful; start but a start to understanding what may have happened. Link: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2... My guess is that FB should have blocked a sub-domain but instead blocked a whole do…
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So does the internet in general. It's still poor form to block entire platforms without warning.
Recently Indian government blocked Tik-Tok. Does anyone know if they gave a warning to the users or the app developers? One can argue that governments should have the right to censorship when its a matter of urgency or emergency or national security (though this is debatable), does the same power lie with Facebook (or any other platform) to exercise a censorship on its users? It goes back to the big debate whether th…
This is a weird question. Of course a private business can choose what content they want on their platform. ESPN, for instance, censors tech news. If an ESPN journalist put together a story about Facebook blocking Dreamwidth, they'd censor it.
Having said that, I know there are some on HN that react emotionally anytime someone engages in "censorship". Oh well. No company is obligated to post content just because someone else wants them to.
In the past there was a news about Paypal banning Dreamwidth. Not sure if its related: "About six months after opening, PayPal -- our payment processor at the time -- demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms) that was legal and protected speech but that they felt violated their terms for using PayPal." HN discussion on it: ht…
“Protected Speech” means that the government can’t censor it, not private corporations.
I wonder how long it's going to take for small developers to draw the line and stop voluntarily feeding the beast that is facebook and other centralized media companies. The feedback loop is continuously going to be against them, since they are basically training their users to use social media for discovery instead of visiting them directly. I moved my former facebook games away from their platform and even from the…
In the past there was a news about Paypal banning Dreamwidth. Not sure if its related: "About six months after opening, PayPal -- our payment processor at the time -- demanded that we censor some of our users' content (mostly involving people talking about sex, usually fictionally, in explicit terms) that was legal and protected speech but that they felt violated their terms for using PayPal." HN discussion on it: ht…
“Protected Speech” means that the government can’t censor it, not private corporations.
Interesting place, never heard of it before. > Dreamwidth Studios is an Open Source social networking, content management, and personal publishing platform. Our mission in life is to make it easy for you to share the things you make, and easy to find the people who are making the things you want to enjoy. > We have all the features you've come to love in social networking sites, including privacy and security feature…
(Unrelated: whenever I read something about Tumblr, like its Wikipedia page just now, I'm always surprised to find it in the present tense, not "Tumblr was" but "Tumblr is". To me, it's just dead with the censorship, I never see it being linked to anymore, and I wasn't even regularly on the nsfw part. Every time I'm reminded it wasn't actually shut down.)
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I'd say Apollo (or Reddit is Fun on Android) is a heck of a lot better than new Reddit, and about as good as old Reddit. And Google Maps' app beats their site by a county mile on iOS. There's no good Hacker News client for mobile though, at least one that's better than the web page. Not that I'm saying someone should make one either, the site is responsive as heck.
HN works fine on mobile I think the only improvement needed might be a different style on "code" blocks, but otherwise it works great There's literally no need for an app