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New Twitter feature cuts down on spam posts by 100% (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago by bitofhope@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending.

Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

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[-] 200fifty@awful.systems 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.

Me when the mods unfairly ban me from my favorite video game forum circa 2009

(source: first HN thread)

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 11 months ago

When I was a kid my mom told me not to drink from the garden hose and that was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up not wanting to be blasted in the face with a pressure washer. A strange authoritarian impulse.

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 11 months ago

When I was a kid Power Rangers was totally and completely awesome, but the whole millennial generation grew up to despise dressing in colorful spandex. A strange Rita Repulsan impulse.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Someday I should go through the 6.5K comments on the threads where the Twitter acquisition was discussed and sum up the sentiment then vs now

HN has a split view of Xhitter, every thread about it moans about how you have to have an account to view replies, but it's also the great White anti-woke hope

also the domain at HN is still twitter.com not x.com, which I feel is dang or PG giving Husk the finger. Fuck they even say "tweets" instead of "posts"

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 11 months ago

White anti-woke hope

Before twitter went down Musk was agreeing with people saying that the left is letting in illegals so they get more left wing votes (illegals can vote or something). So yeah going well.

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