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Could you please stop using HN primarily for ideological battle? We have to ban accounts that do this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I don't want to ban you because you've also posted some good things, but I had to scroll pretty far back to find more than one. If you'd please fix this, we'd appreciate it.

Thanks for clarifying the flag

By all accounts they’re making decisions based on their experiences on each platform, not maximum reach. This doesn’t happen in a vacuum: decisions are made by the executive and those decisions have consequences. If X wants scientists, make it enjoyable for scientists to participate. If anything, put blame at the feet of X’s leadership. Or enjoy the platform but accept that others don’t.

Why is this comment flagged? (Not that I agree or disagree -- it shouldn't be flagged though)

What's far left about the platform? The platform seems more open. Given the choice between a left or right user base, seems like the platform fundamentals would be more important.

The platform itself - i.e. the technical bits - is not "far-left", it just ended up absorbing the most recent victims of Musk-phobia. In that way is a mirror image of what happened to Twitter-alternatives from back when Twitter was run by more or less the same crowd as that which now insists on migrating to BS: something like Parler became a haven for those who were pushed out and with that ended up being a "right-wing" platform even though the technology (based on Mastodon) itself was no "right-wing". Wikipedia ended up with a left-wing bias due to the influx of ideologically left-leaning editors (academics and ex-academics with time on their hands), not because Mediawiki is a "left-wing" wiki engine.

Its the continuation of the echo chambers but platform specific instead of say the algorithm on a platform focusing content your way. Or potentially a super concentrated version since you have both a platform that leans one way, so the the content selection via recommender is limited by its range.

Translation: people who still use Twitter to make money by exploiting user emotions and attention will make less money.

Musk has pushed people away with his policies and cult of personality. It's his own fault, maybe he did ** that coming?

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