elastolin

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by elastolin 6y ago
Please elaborate.
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by elastolin 6y ago
You don't understand how hard is for a messaging app to gain traction. Telegram has been growing for years and years, and it offers some significant advantages over WhatsApp. Even with all this marketing and effort, I'd say only a
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by elastolin 6y ago
> Obviously many of these people will go with me once I find a better alternative. People will go only if there's another service that's good enough and has enough user density. You may find the best privacy-oriented, ad-free
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by elastolin 6y ago
This is actually a great idea, and it shouldn't be too hard to implement.
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by elastolin 6y ago
> ~1$/month, I don't do anything heavy, text messaging only Won't work. The vast majority people don't pay for messaging service, and without people, there's no messaging app. Ads are the only way forward. Will t
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by elastolin 6y ago
> I absolutely despise ads of any kind, and go to a decent amount of effort to block them from appearing on any device in my household No one cares, my man. This position is so off the grid that your anti-ad cruzade will likely have 0 im
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by elastolin 6y ago
> fundamental disagreement about how society should be We may not agree, but we can't say it's a "fundamental disagreement" if there's so much people rooting for it. > What does that look like? 1) Disagreeing
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by elastolin 6y ago
> Some people should never have power, like nazis. That's exactly what I'm arguing against. That's just your opinion and you treat it like some universal axiom. Same way you treat 'Holocaust deniers' as some kind
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by elastolin 6y ago
"everything means nothing yada yada yada" You know exactly what I mean, cut the bullshit. Point being, deplatforming may be okay for the group who exercises it, but not for the group that is being deplatformed. Who the fuck decide
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by elastolin 6y ago
No, it doesn't sound rasonable. Even if it's real Nazis. It's an absolutely retarded standpoint.
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by elastolin 6y ago
True. But it has a more relaxed approach to moderation.
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by elastolin 6y ago
So, deplatforming (silencing) a group is okay, but doing the same for other group is not okay based on some arbitrary criteria.
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by elastolin 6y ago
What if we starting deplatforming Jews or reducing Jewish influence to the point of pratical irrelevance? Would that be okay?
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by elastolin 6y ago
That's not a Trump quote.
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by elastolin 6y ago
>show me a site without moderation that still has high quality discussion 4chan
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by elastolin 6y ago
Pretty much this.
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by elastolin 6y ago
We both know there's about a 100% chance that whoever reads gnu.org and writes a browser extension to block JavaScript on a specific site is a male, so "he/him" is better in this case.
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by elastolin 6y ago
That makes total sense. A more pragmatic and less technical interpretation. I don't condone it seems that's the way we're headed. It does seem like a slippery slope, though. Someone could argue that your site facilitates bypa
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by elastolin 6y ago
Why does hosting a magnet link make a torrent index 'illegal'? After all, you're not hosting any actual content on your server.
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by elastolin 6y ago
Which site?
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by elastolin 6y ago
Is this satire? The fact that you even specify that you "do not ask for passwords" for social media accounts of potential hires, is sketchy as fuck. I'm sorry for the desperate people that go along with this shit.
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