[HN Gopher] I'm staying at Substack, and will be moving to Subst... ___________________________________________________________________ I'm staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week Author : doener Score : 41 points Date : 2023-04-07 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | blueridge wrote: | Good time to move your Substack publication over to Ghost! | Excellent product. | | https://ghost.org/ | api wrote: | "Not your server, not your site." | schnebbau wrote: | Loremasters, what is happening here? | AbrahamParangi wrote: | Twitter is suppressing posts containing links to substack as | well as at least one text post by substack itself explaining | what's going on. | | The suppression takes the form of likes and retweets being | disabled and presumably reach limited. | | To add my personal opinion, it's deeply pathetic. | api wrote: | This is in response to substack launching a potential Twitter | competitor. | | They've done the same off and on to Mastodon, though after a | while they backed off on that one a bit. | | Free speech! | tehwebguy wrote: | As of today (or yesterday?) if a tweet includes a link to a | substack.com URL the tweet cannot be liked, retweeted or | replied to. Likes will appear to work and then disappear. They | can still be "quote tweeted". | | It's pretty funny because the individuals that Musk hand picked | to give the "Twitter files" to all use Substack. They all | embarrassed themselves by stretching what was _mostly_ nothing | into a huge story seemingly on his behalf before he turned his | back on them. | JumpCrisscross wrote: | Adding context: this follows Substack launching a Twitter- | like short-messaging product. | adamsb6 wrote: | Federal and state governments collaborating with tech | companies to censor American citizens is not mostly nothing. | | They shadow-downranked a medical doctor at Stanford for Covid | "misinformation." | lern_too_spel wrote: | No need for scare quotes. https://mobile.twitter.com/19joho | /status/1463540124407451659 | PaulHoule wrote: | It's like what they did to Robespierre, Danton, et al. in the | French Revolution. | | It is too bad that they brought back the tweety bird because I | was about to make a sticker using the Doge and other symbolism | intended to trigger the opsonization of macroscopic objects. | paulpauper wrote: | Just like the AI is not your friend, neither is Musk. Look how | he did a reversal on Bitcoin, Doge. People who bought Doge coin | a few days ago are down 13%. He pumped BTC in 2021 and Tesla | dumped its position in 2022 at a small loss, but BTC investors | who heeded Tesla were at one point down over 50%. You cannot | trust that these people are looking out for your interests. | It's all business in the end. You have to assume that these | people are only looking after themselves, in the end. | api wrote: | ... or the Trotskyites in the Soviet revolution. | | ... or a whole bunch of very surprised fascists in the Nazi | "Night of the Long Knives." | | ... or almost everyone in Pol Pot's Cambodia. | | Yes, the leopards will eat your face too. The loyalty in | totalitarian societies only goes up the chain of command. | Everyone down the chain is expendable. | | The leopards are going to eat Elon's face in the end. Just | wait. Someone should tell him his new friends hate EVs and | renewable energy and don't give a damn about space. | | Same for Peter Thiel. He's gay, which means they think he's a | degenerate subhuman. They're happy to take his money but if | they gain power he's gonna be cat food. | watwut wrote: | Utterly confused about Robespiere reference. Like ... how, | what? | mustacheemperor wrote: | Oh my god, anyone encountering this thread, for the sake of your | mental health do not open that link and scroll the replies. | | I got immediate flashbacks to 00s youtube comments and closed the | tab, I feel like it's not enough, like I should shut down my | computer and spend three days hiking the mountains to detox from | that. | | No clue if that's the norm across twitter these days but oh | golly. | j_crick wrote: | Don't know what's _that_ abnormal there aside from the overall | cringe from the whole ordeal vOv | suddenclarity wrote: | You'll find subsections of anything on any platform. This is a | famous controversial person writing about a controversial | topic. It will bring the worst of the worst. Even this site | goes crazy whenever there's a thread on Twitter or Musk. | Although more tame since here's an actual mod. | sega_sai wrote: | And while blocking sharing the substack links, they removed all | the restrictions on Russian official government accounts | https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644441340497784846 Good | job Elon! | user3939382 wrote: | What's wrong with the Russian government having a voice? They | represent millions of people. The ease with which our media | just duped our whole country into hating Russia and supporting | this war is very scary. | Yizahi wrote: | What is really crazy is how conservatives have brainwashed | millions into thinking black is white and united crybabies | all around the world. Not really surprising, given whole | human history of succumbing to liars and scumbags, but a pity | anyway. That's why we can't have nice things. | davidw wrote: | > represent millions of people | | They represent one man. | drewda wrote: | In recent years, political scientists have been starting to | talk about "electoral authoritarian regimes" -- how | dictators make use of some amount of popular support, | media, and other tools to stay in power. | | For example "Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, | and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism" by Aleksandar | Matovski: https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Dictatorships- | Opinion-Elector... | | I'm no expert, but I find this an interesting line of | thought. It feels like a way to more fully understand the | specific dynamics of how someone like Putin stays in power | in Russia -- rather than just calling Putin a dictator. | | (Don't get me wrong. I believe in the values of the modern | "free world" order that is led by the US, even if it's | imperfect. Just want to also better understand how the | opponents also think and operate.) | singleshot_ wrote: | "just duped our whole country into hating Russia" | | Did you sleep through the Cold War? Haven't these guys been | the enemy since shortly after World War Two? Where did you | get the idea that being opposed to Russia happened recently? | | The real question is how the insurrectionists think that this | line of logic isn't ridiculous. | drewcoo wrote: | Something about smirking Ronnie helping Yeltsin transition | to "democracy" so that the US could "invest" told me that | the Cold War was over. | | You do realize they're not communists anymore, right? | benguillet wrote: | Substack must be thrilled with Twitter's decision to block their | links (which will be reverted I'm sure), great publicity for | Notes. | serial_dev wrote: | So petty and counterproductive. I would have missed the whole | Substack Notes announcement if it wasn't for Matt Taibbi (and | for Twitter hostile approach). | | Matt did a great job with the Twitter files, he has integrity | and he's "incorruptible" whereas Elon is a petty tyrant who | goes nuclear for the slightest disagreements, so I honestly | wouldn't be surprised if this will end up with Matt's account | removed. | benguillet wrote: | Yup, Musk already stopped following Matt Taibbi | https://twitter.com/BigTechAlert/status/1644438910305464326 | mmcclure wrote: | Were it not for Twitter blocking Substack links I likely never | would have heard of Notes[1], and I'm even someone that knows | about/likes Substack. This feels like another weird own goal by | Elon/Twitter that's giving quite a bit more amplification to a | competitive product than if they'd done nothing[2]. | | [1] https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes | | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-07 23:01 UTC)