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Looks like that might be the case. I might have been confusing Gumroad with Braintree. I was only attempting to give an example, not advocating for one specific processor.

An alternate processor while stripe figures out the mess - revenue keeps coming in.

Gumroad has their own failures, but if ANY issue with payment processing is intolerable, don’t bother running a business.

One reason might be that the founders and some key employees are active on hn. Also, they have services like Atlas that may help the typical HN crowd.

Why? Can’t you have a dormant or lightly used gumroad account integrated into your site/app. It’s not trivial, but could be worth it. Most frameworks have these services already integrated.

It was already scheduled, but also why wouldn’t they want him to appear? It’s an on going story. They’re obviously not endorsing crime or fraud.

They’d interview Bernie Madoff the week he was caught too.

None of this addresses the quote in parent comment. My point is the distinction is irrelevant. People deceive people all the time. There's no consolation in knowing that a scammer was human, or frustration that they were AI. Either way, you were scammed.

"AI ethics"

Are these a new type of luddite? Why aren't there "computer ethicists" complaining about real issues with the use of technology in general? I'm being tracked at all times without my consent. These "AI ethicists" are happy to use platforms like Twitter that track you, and even reward you for giving them more info (e.g. phone number).

Are there other products that were traditionally a one-time purchase that transitioned to subscription model successfully besides software? You can at least make the case that an online service requires an on-going cost.

> I once lived in a world where I could have confidence that I wasn't being fundamentally deceived by literal dei ex machina.

What difference does it make that it's a computer doing it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

curl, sqlite, awk, etc. They're all free. Am I the product?

Data also needs to not be shipped to a third-party (e.g. Google) to be correlated with other activity outside the app sending the telemetry. There's likely lots of data going to Google Analytics that the software/service owner never looks at, but Google uses for their own purposes.

What's HN's stance on tracking links? This post is filled with them. I thought I remember Dang saying something about it.

Remember Toys-To-Life?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toys-to-life

I wonder if that was Bob Iger. Or maybe he was smart enough to dump it.

The stock has been under performing the S&P 500 since 2015, when Iger was CEO. There was a bit of out performance when Disney+ was released, but then resumed under performance. Chapek wasn't the only reason for this.

I wouldn't want to own it. All content producers seem to be performing poorly.

It's been discussed here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902630

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018037

Good riddance. I still remember how they were phoning-home without being 100% transparent about it, and the injection of ads.

> We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out.

Yet people always defend telemetry in software, saying it's how they improve their product. 7 years of telemetry, and they couldn't figure it out?!

how many people need to flag it to have it not appear in rankings?

Is there a way for users to 'unflag' it?

Thread number 3... will it get flagged too?

Why do these threads keep getting flagged? There should be a clear explanation.

Why is this flagged?

> If you use an address under someone elses domain, they can.

I suppose that's true. Google can ban a gmail account that is inappropriate on a Google Groups list, or a university can ban a student's account that represents the university inappropriately. Those are narrow cases, though. It's not in the same ball park as a mod deciding to ban someone. An instance for just the account seems the best option, but I don't know the devs' intentions.

> Mastodon isn't decentralized

The title for the official site (https://joinmastodon.org/) states:

"Mastodon - Decentralized social media"

Also, I was using the root commenter's terminology, not my own interpretation. I would lean more towards your definition. It seems nobody can agree...

It seems like a mailing list is still the more decentralized form of decentralized social media.

Nobody can stop you from using the same email address (ie identity) on a different mailing list.

I remember there being an attempt to make implement chat using the IMAP protocol. I'm blanking on the name of it.

>redirect after reaching out to the mods

That's the thing I find noteworthy about the incident. I guess it's a disagreement with the definition of "decentralized." I suppose the mods were kind enough to allow it after appeal, but I don't see why they should be involved in the decision. I would expect it to be the minimum functionality to remain.

from a reply:

"As for server rules they changed in the 5 years I joined the server. I first joined it in 2017."

The surprising thing is that one instance can ban you, which prevents the account from being moved to another instance.

>If you apply the "Mastodon instance is a Subreddit" model, this makes more sense.

Shouldn't this mean a ban on one instance allows you to still access other instances? That was not the case here. Even moving the account was not permitted after the ban.

I heard she went to hong kong shortly after the collapse started. She then went to Dubai to avoid extradition.

I don’t have a source. I heard it in an interview with someone following the case.

Cloudflare can do this. Even for domains you don't buy there. You can use a free account. Their Security Center scans warn you of this and other configuration issues you may not consider.

Edit: Sorry, you did say "one click way." I meant the warning of these things can be done on a free account, but the actions taken can only be done on a domain bought through CF. I don't think there can be a "one click way" for this type of change because a misconfiguration can have a huge impact on your business if you're not careful.

This is a good idea. I use a catch-all domain for receiving mail. I never thought to set up DMARC & SPF until I received an email from a scammer attempting to impersonate the domain, but not any of the names I've used. I wonder also if it could impact the reputation/value of parked domains.

The article didn't mention Google's PostMaster tools:

https://gmail.com/postmaster/

This can give you a hint if your non-mail domain is being used elsewhere. I think it goes back 90-ish days, even before you had it set up.

Did Bernie Madoff make it this easy? Or is this an elaborate plan he's already designed with game theory?