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Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by brigandish »

astrange wrote: post #738
brigandish wrote: post #678

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Private tweets aren't private, they're limited audience. If you're saying something defamatory behind "private" tweets then, I hate to break it to you, it's still defamation. You might get some mitigation from limiting the audience but that's it.

Hm? I'm talking about private info leaks. GDPR fines are quite severe, you know.

Like this one[1] from 2018?

> Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year.

> The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter.

> "The issue has persisted since May 2017," Twitter said.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45609633

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by brigandish »

wpietri wrote: post #750
brigandish wrote: post #742

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I’m going to remain “excited” for, what is for most people, the most basic level of truth, by attributing quotes to the correct people , yes, which somehow you seem to think is “extreme precision”. The only question for me is whether the somehow is because of your obvious dislike of DeSantis or whether it’s a general attitude. As to whether the “anti-woke crowd” will never give an answer, I’ve seen plenty of answers…

She didn't just panic on TV. She failed to define it in the book, too. If that's panic, I guess she panicked for 18 months given she "spent a year and a half researching, writing, and editing"? Sounds exhausting. And here, in the article defending herself, she had plenty of time for one-sided boo-hooing and why-is-the-mean-liberal-hurting-my-children nonsense, but I don't see her defining it there either. (I guess sh…

> Something I note you conspicuously failed to do here, despite how you totally saw it defined by your Canadian girlfriend.

What are you babbling about?

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by s3p »

Incipient wrote: post #651
lapcat wrote: post #524

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> This notes thing looks like an attempt to pivot to an advertising based business model It's not. Substack is very clear about that. https://on.substack.com/p/notes-faq "The ultimate goal on Substack is to convert casual readers into paying subscribers. Because the Substack network runs on paid subscriptions, writers are rewarded for respecting the trust and attention of their audiences, not exploiting it like with…

Because no company would ever lie about their intentions, or at the very least pivot to the exact opposite of their original point without a second thought. Would they?

Aaaah someone disagrees with my point of view so they must be lying!

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by mlindner »

nr2x wrote: post #710
mlindner wrote: post #669

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There's no evidence to support that statement. Given he continues to talk with the man at times (he replied to one of his tweets the a few days ago) and there's no evidence to support the idea that he did it for monetary reasons, other explanations are much more reasonable. Namely that it was a simple mistake.

Honest question: why do you see it as your job to defend Elon Musk online? I see a lot of people doing it and I find it strange. Why do you care?

A couple of reasons:

1. I care pretty strongly about the truth. When I see people actively spreading incorrect information whether through malice or their own misunderstanding I think it’s important to correct it to prevent the deception of others, especially when it’s happened on such a wide scale. He himself doesn’t seem to understand that it’s important to correct this type of thing early so there’s no other option.

2. I care because a lot of the future depends on the success of Elon’s companies and people use tearing down Elon as an excuse to attack his companies. They’re doing amazing things for the future while being constantly attacked for it.

So it’s a double-whammy of self interest and my own internal mental obsessions.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by rewtraw »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #611
rewtraw wrote: post #610

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without a UX that abstracts away the siloed nature of federated instances, it really is a massive hindrance to network effects and will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche

>without a UX that abstracts away the siloed nature of federated instances Can you be more specific? Only thing I found missing was "Quote Posts" and almost everyone seems to agree that it was the right decision to make. > will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche And its not a good thing? "There's an instance for everything" is fast becoming an reality, Let those instances be small as its managed…

that posters cannot reach an audience beyond their own server. the point of a microblogging platform is to create and consume content, but who wants to publish to a platform that doesn’t have the largest potential reach? and if the best content creators aren’t on the platform, why would the consumers be?

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

rewtraw wrote: post #755
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #611

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>without a UX that abstracts away the siloed nature of federated instances Can you be more specific? Only thing I found missing was "Quote Posts" and almost everyone seems to agree that it was the right decision to make. > will prevent Mastodon from ever growing beyond a small niche And its not a good thing? "There's an instance for everything" is fast becoming an reality, Let those instances be small as its managed…

that posters cannot reach an audience beyond their own server. the point of a microblogging platform is to create and consume content, but who wants to publish to a platform that doesn’t have the largest potential reach? and if the best content creators aren’t on the platform, why would the consumers be?

Have you considered that not everyone wants to be an influencer on Social Media?

Some might just want to have a social interaction with like minded people, I'm one of them and Mastodon has been perfect for it.

I have a 14 year old Twitter account, Apart from the first few years when Twitter was actually like Mastodon with friends fooling around I never felt happy browsing Twitter; It has become an algorithm enforced narcissism universe with everyone trying to sell something or themselves.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by astrange »

brigandish wrote: post #751
astrange wrote: post #738

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm? I'm talking about private info leaks. GDPR fines are quite severe, you know.

Like this one[1] from 2018? > Twitter has told an undisclosed number of users their private messages may have been leaked to third-parties for more than a year. > The software “bug”, which has since been fixed, involved direct messages between users and businesses that offer customer services via Twitter. > "The issue has persisted since May 2017," Twitter said. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45609633

Strange lack of detail there. What was the actual point of exposure? I wonder if that was a latent security issue that wasn't actually exploited.

They did have problems like state actors getting spies hired and leaking data directly of course.

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by jeff_tyrrill »

gumby wrote: post #720

Is there a way to follow notes via RSS? This is how I read regular substack posts.

There does not appear to be officially. No RSS feed is declared in the main index page metadata, and adding /feed to the URL doesn't work as it does with "newsletter" pages.

However, by poking around in my browser debugger's XHR calls, it only took me a few hours to write a translator from Substack's (not-publicly-supported) JSON-based browser API to RSS.

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Post by mstade »

drusepth wrote: post #173
mstade wrote: post #111

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I use gifski, it's perfect: https://gif.ski/

Can gifski handle the initial recording (e.g. selecting an area of your monitor and recording)? Or is it just for converting other recordings into gif?

It's just for converting. For the actual recording I use the built-in functionality in macOS, it's pretty great: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721

Re: Substack Notes Launched

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Post by emodendroket »

tracker1 wrote: post #737
emodendroket wrote: post #498

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No, but rather that Musk has been using it in bad faith (I’m assuming “I support free speech” was meant to qualify the criticism of Twitter under Musk’s leadership).

Yeah, Musk's definition of supporting free speech wasn't much to speak of... better than the old guard, but really weird in ways too. For me, short of threats or calls for violence I'm pretty open to whatever... As long as you're able to as an individual block/filter. Though the NSFW content on Twitter can be pretty bad and wouldn't mind being able to selectively filter that as a user too.

I don’t think it is better than “the old guard” at all. I would agree with this piece (which contains examples to make the point), that all he’s done is boost ideas he likes hearing and suppress ones he doesn’t in nakedly partisan fashion: https://apple.news/ANuPT612pRca2DdolgCyu1g

And it does neatly summarize what I meant about the term “free speech” being abused: “ For them, free speech is when they can say what they want, and when you can say what they want.”

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