Hacker News Reader

Comment by someonebaggy | Hacker News Reader

we need a Nitter for Threads

apparently people use Threads. I suppose the same kind of people who connect Muse to Facebook Marketplace.

I initially found screenshots of this on Bluesky, figured I'd link to the original source given Threads seems to at least allow us to read without logging in.

With that said, in case Threads isn't available for whatever reason, I've uploaded screenshots of everything (I think?) here: https://imgur.com/a/mceW9WF

Minor nit - imgur isn't available to UK based people[0] thanks to the Online Safety Act

[0] Which makes browsing Modrinth or Curseforge for Minecraft mods HILARIOUS - "you make a [extra dimension] portal like this: [image not available in your region]" "Gallery: [image not available in your region] [image not available in your region] [image not available in your region]"

Sounds like a local government problem for y'all to solve, not a problem for the rest of the world to work around

It's not due to OSA. Ofcom are the regulator for the OSA, but Imgur was being handed a fine by the ICO in regards to how they handled children's data. It's the same parent company that develops Kik so I'm not super shocked...

> It's the same parent company that develops Kik so I'm not super shocked...

But Kik (from Medialab who are the people being fined by ICO) is still online in the UK which somewhat undercuts that argument?

> It's not due to OSA [...] in regards to how they handled children's data

potato, tomato.

https://rimgo.nohost.network/a/mceW9WF

I was allowed to read the original post without logging in, but it repeatedly showed me a dismissable pop-up asking me to download the app. Then when I tried to scroll down to read replies it showed me a non-dismissable pop-up asking me to download the app.

Holy shit social media is bad. I've been using Mastodon for so long I didn't realize how bad the others are.

and this is the least worst. X only shows you one post and Reddit won't show you anything.

Mastodon's dependence on screenshots from other social networks is infuriating, enough that I left Mastodon altogether. Screenshots are text, they can be doctored in 15 seconds. Screenshots in the age of AI are utterly useless.

This reads as anti-mastodon propaganda tbh. You never heard of Inspect Element, or saw screenshots of twitter on reddit and vice versa?

Yeah the AI part of their post is stupid, but they're right; screenshots can be easily faked (through e.g inspect element), so if your social media feed is mostly screenshots from other social media, you're at a relatively high risk of seeing fake posts. On the other hand you can't fake the content of a post or repost or the quoted content of a quote post, so if your feed contains only non-screenshot content you can be relatively certain that the content you're seeing is genuine.

I've never had that problem on Mastodon, but I can see how it could be annoying if you follow a lot of people who mainly post screenshots of people's posts from other social media sites. Though you could solve that problem by unfollowing those people...

Also note your Mastodon feed is the people you follow, so you can just not follow people who post fake screenshots.

I'm aware, but the practice is widespread is what I'm saying - even in the cybersecurity space.

Sure, but Mastodon doesn't embed anything and links from "the outside" usually don' work on other social medium unless you have an account - which leaves people unable to verify. Twitter users don't tend to be inspired by (or present on) other networks, so it goes:

X has FB and Insta screenshots

Insta has FB and X screenshots

FB has Insta and X screenshots

Bluesky has FB, Insta and X screenshots

Masto has Bluesky, FB, Insta and X screenshots

So what I'm saying is on Mastodon, you are exposed to the most screenshots of other networks, because there are no techniques to embed them and people refuse to link to them for the reason they aren't on those networks in the first place.

As for AI, i know toddlers who can prompt but are unaware of what a right click is.

I hate that my Google news feed seems to be half threads links with no way to block the site.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com