> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I understand the partisan juxtaposition of "X" and Moxie Marlinspike, and the partisan appeal of commenting on it, but to me it is a tangential annoyance.
I usually agree, but X has been pretty terrible as a medium. Not sure how OP meant it, obviously.
I'd created an account a year or so ago just to be able to view posts that pop up here. 3 months later I was banned for inauthentic activity, whatever that means. I googled and apparently that happened to a huge swath of people this year.
That was fine, I could still read posts. But now it gates me on wanting my biometrics for verification. Now clicking any link, including the above, asks me to submit biometrics. Assuming I'm not the unluckiest human alive, this feels like a terrible way to share content.
I'm curious what cesspool you mean, because i can see cutting edge true hardcore science publication announcements on X better than elsewhere.
i ask because i evidently have tuned my account parameters somehow way the heck better than you experience.
I _do_ still see what look like rage-bait nonsense that people post for clicks, totally unrelated to medicine or biology, so i block or mute that nonsense. I'm guessing that's part of the cesspool but you may see different stuff.
Why do you think Moxie Marlinspike is not the type of person that would stay on this cesspool of a network that is X? From what I've seen I'd have been very surprised to see him anywhere else.
It is ironic that the founder of maybe the most popular privacy-conscious IM app is actively contributing to his and his followers' data being harvested on X though.
I'm open to correction on which rule to cite, or whether to cite a rule:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Picking:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I understand the partisan juxtaposition of "X" and Moxie Marlinspike, and the partisan appeal of commenting on it, but to me it is a tangential annoyance.
I usually agree, but X has been pretty terrible as a medium. Not sure how OP meant it, obviously.
I'd created an account a year or so ago just to be able to view posts that pop up here. 3 months later I was banned for inauthentic activity, whatever that means. I googled and apparently that happened to a huge swath of people this year.
That was fine, I could still read posts. But now it gates me on wanting my biometrics for verification. Now clicking any link, including the above, asks me to submit biometrics. Assuming I'm not the unluckiest human alive, this feels like a terrible way to share content.
I'm curious what cesspool you mean, because i can see cutting edge true hardcore science publication announcements on X better than elsewhere.
i ask because i evidently have tuned my account parameters somehow way the heck better than you experience.
I _do_ still see what look like rage-bait nonsense that people post for clicks, totally unrelated to medicine or biology, so i block or mute that nonsense. I'm guessing that's part of the cesspool but you may see different stuff.
Why do you think Moxie Marlinspike is not the type of person that would stay on this cesspool of a network that is X? From what I've seen I'd have been very surprised to see him anywhere else.
It is ironic that the founder of maybe the most popular privacy-conscious IM app is actively contributing to his and his followers' data being harvested on X though.
Not sure what image you have of him. But a cesspool is where he belongs, imo.