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Obligatory addendum every time foone is posted here: foone goes by they/them pronouns and foone hates HN and all it stands for so please don't bother them with twitter replies just because you saw this thread on here. If you think about following them on twitter because of a cool tech thread, please be aware that they're not a tech novelty account and don't complain when they tweet about politics.

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You forgot, foone isn't going to change from streams of Twitter posts to long form blogging.

Well, this thread was less focussed than the last ones that got posted here so this seemed less likely to prompt the usual "Twitter threads are unreadable, why doesn't foone just write a proper article" replies, but yes. Foone has stated in the past that Twitter threads are the right medium for their ADHD-fueled bursts of writing and that blogs aren't.

Even typical Twitter users can have opinions we agree with at least some of the time.

Why should we care whether Foone's mad at HN? Posting to a medium you don't own and expecting to be able to control who responds and how never really works out. If you want control over who sees your content and how they can respond, you have to use a medium you control, and I don't see why Foone is special in that regard.

The reason I said what foone wants and doesn't want is precisely that they can not control what others do. Yes, you can disregard all that, follow them on twitter and angrily chastise them for not sticking to cool tech projects and tell them to use a proper blogging platform, but I was providing this information based on the expectation that most people reading it would not want to be intentionally rude.

If the only thing stopping you from being rude would be the police literally dragging you away from your computer, yes, by all means, try to prove a point by being intentionally rude just because they can't stop you.

My point is that when Foone posts are shared here, someone always follows up with The Official Rules for Interacting With Foone. Others neither expect nor get such treatment. What's different about Foone?

Most of the other people who get their tweets shared on HN don't vocally hate HN as much? They're also usually men, so there's no need to clarify pronouns.

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