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by bmarquez 2y ago
Yeah, it's even invaded the more obscure subreddits. Some posters try to shoehorn in political commentary even when it doesn't have much to do with the topic. I doubt there are even real humans behind some posts.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
In other words, "it's the economy, stupid" (That phrase was used by James Carville to help Bill Clinton get elected in 1992)
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by bmarquez 3y ago
I distinctly remember the mindset of HN that the second comment linked describes, that Meta was doomed. Then many started cheering it on because they wanted Twitter to fail. Neither of which has happened so far. I think HN users (myself inc
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> Text posts appear similar to Instagram Stories Seems more of an Instagram replacement than a Twitter one, the userbase of Instagram is also closer to TikTok than Twitter.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Just because Facebook may potentially create their own app store doesn't mean others are going to use it. Even on Android, sideloading is fraught with warnings that the average older Facebook user might not figure it out. Personally I&
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> Maybe a company can actually do a genuinely decent thing every once in a while Sure. But I have zero confidence, based on previous actions, that company is Facebook/Meta.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> There was a proposed change about six months or a year ago, but it was walked back after public criticism. Was that change ever walked back? I recall that Whatsapp wanted to send metadata (not the messages themselves, but phone numbers
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by bmarquez 3y ago
I share your sentiment. I use Twitter for business and Instagram (before I deleted it) for friends. I follow very different accounts on each. I'm not going to mix business and pleasure so to speak, especially with Meta's poor priv
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> experience of working on a film or television series that is underbid, understaffed, subject to unreasonable, inflexible deadlines, and endless directorial nitpicking: "pixel fucked" This feels like working for a video game c
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Intelligent enough to create a grift selling subscriptions to the "Real World" featuring rehashed low-quality dropshipping/crypto/copywriting content, sure. That's not even how he made his money but teaching how to
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> But let's never forget that we were and can be allies. Can you share some examples? Honest question, I've never seen this happen in modern day America (it's usually just one side taking and taking instead of give and tak
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by bmarquez 3y ago
How is it worse? From a privacy perspective they're both terrible and the data flows to the same Meta servers, but Facebook demands you use your real name (and demands photo ID if it thinks it's fake) while Instagram doesn't
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by bmarquez 3y ago
It would be interesting to see Facebook Groups divorce from Facebook itself. Maybe allow people to login using an Instagram or Whatsapp identity, or better yet an independent login. I don't really want my group activity to be linked to
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Parent commenter is talking about (banned) conservative subs, not r/conservative specifically. And yes there is a difference, there was a "Never Trump" movement led by conservatives which obviously wouldn't have been pop
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> The abuse is directed at everyone; no matter what opinion you share, no matter who you are, you will be verbally abused in a variety of ways. Yeah, this is what people misunderstand about 4chan. Obviously my race gets a lot of flak, bu
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by bmarquez 3y ago
I was watching the stream earlier. It was an exciting feeling to have 10,000 people viewing, and cheering on the chat whenever a new subreddit went dark. I don't know if I should be excited or sad. Reddit is dying, but I'm seeing
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by bmarquez 3y ago
You can't vote on a poll using a 3rd party app. For example, if you click on a poll using Apollo, it opens the Reddit website as a new window and you have to log in again and vote through that website. This level of friction means I&#x
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by bmarquez 3y ago
From what I've seen, only for niche programming or highly technical circles. My "normie" friends don't even want to try something polished like Signal. Mastodon would have to be heavily simplified, polished, and maybe sp
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by bmarquez 3y ago
I initially thought this was a dupe of next weeks protest, but no, this is a permanent shutdown.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
the_donald made it very clear that they were a subreddit trying to mimic a Trump campaign rally. You could even be a conservative, mildly critical of Trump's policy and still get banned. It never claimed to be unbiased and proudly proc
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Previous discussion (from 8 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850799
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> it's just been improved This is a debatable statement. Personally I want to see the original artist's intent, warts and all. It gives insight into the cultural sensitivities, or lack thereof, of an era before I was born.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Also, this article talks about a protest (which is new information, unlike previous HN submissions which only reported the changes.)
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by bmarquez 3y ago
To be fair, I had this same issue pre-Elon. You have to go into your settings and turn off everything except "Related to you and your tweets"
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Facebook and Instagram started the enshittification process long before Twitter did. And Reddit even hired Ellen Pao as a scapegoat to push through unpopular decisions. Reddit was heading in this direction long before Musk was involved.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Blue seems to be a "less likely to be a bot" badge. Considering that I've seen ChatGPT-type comments in various subreddits, I expect paid social media like Twitter Blue, Reddit Premium and Discord Nitro being pushed even more
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Ivory is for Mastodon. Lemmy is the Fediverse replacement for Reddit. The only iOS app for Lemmy is Remmel which is dead and no longer available on the App Store.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
This sounds pretty awesome, like a private Discord server or replacement for Facebook groups that's actually private (assuming it can be self-hosted or encrypted). One thing I noticed is that there's no privacy policy. I assume th
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by bmarquez 3y ago
Even my self-proclaimed liberal friends admit NPR has a left-leaning bias. And there's nothing wrong with that. But calling everything disliked "extremist" is counterproductive and is itself an Overton window shift.
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by bmarquez 3y ago
> more centrist news sources like NPR NPR is not considered centrist, but left-leaning. When I check logged out I get CNN and Fox side by side, along with a lot of non-political basketball and Mr. Beast type stuff. Content probably varie

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