Comment by mjmsmith | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mjmsmith | Hacker News Reader

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And there it is, the inevitable "woke".

Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it?

If you build an app that depends on an API, it really sucks if that API is taken away. But we all know it happens. Even so, most companies care enough about goodwill that they will give some advance notice so that you can prepare for it.

In this case, the API was revoked with absolutely no advance warning for people like TapBots, who have been selling and supporting TweetBot for literally years, and now have to clean up the unexpected mess.

That's why, on their merits, Twitter the company and Musk the owner are complete dicks here.

Can you understand that, or is basic common decency too much woke orthodoxy for you?

Keep back-pedaling, you'd have supported the same actions if they were done by "the good guys" that lost control of the company.

> Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it?

Pot, meet kettle.

I thought Dorsey was a doofus whose part-time management contributed to the utter stagnation of the product. And their API changes in 2012 were a shitty thing to do to developers, but perhaps less cowardly than the current changes.

I don't use it much these days, but hopefully it'll stick around, even if only as a Parler clone with $5B in debt, mostly populated by angry reply guys whining about wokeness. I'm sure you'll be happy there.

Your reaction to and obsession with the word "woke" tells us all we need to know about your propaganda driven mind.

I don't even have a twitter account, by the way.

This is an absurd gotcha. If someone is pointing out that someone else is employing a political buzzword for that argument, that's somehow having a "propaganda driven mind"?

Everyone knows using the word "woke" like this is a cheap shot pejorative that has no substance, but pointing out someone using it like this is some kind of "obsession"? If the original poster didn't intend to be so provocative, maybe they shouldn't have leaned on using the words "woke orthodoxy" to make such a lazy point for them.

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