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Not. Until. Federated. Services. Don't. Suck.

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They were pretty clear about it - they screwed up by underestimating the scale of the problems. It's better to admit your mistake quickly and try to fix things.

Instead of building a Web of Trust, a better solution might be to find efficient ways of clustering people.

Look how civil and insightful this discussion is. Why? Because people have different "quality", even if it's not politically correct to talk about it, we all know it intuitively.

Imagine a forum, where all the HN-level people are gradually clustered together, all the rednecks with conspiracy theories, all the leftists dreaming of communism, all form their own independent echo-chambers.

Yes, echo-chambers are bad, but let's face it, you won't be able to change most people's opinions anyway. Don't agree with me? Go on reddit, try saying something "controversial", like "men can't get pregnant", see how many people you would be able to convince :)

Shouldn't we try to do something about it and not just give up by saying "oh, that's just human nature, nothing you can do here"?

All the digits of Pi exist, but you still need to do calculations to know what they are.

Seems like this bot is dumber.

I used it for a day with a single keyword "aging" - so far it sent me two posts: one for "swaging" and the other one for "messaging" :)

Hm, I didn't know about this bot. It's a new one, created in March this year. I created my bot 3 years ago, there was nothing like it then.

Looks similar, with additional functionality.

Sad, actually, my bot got zero traction and so somebody had to write their own bot, which is now more popular... So much for motivation to create new things... Oh, well.

Hi HN,

I've made a telegram bot that can send you new Hacker News stories by keywords.

You specify a list of tags, for example "ai, tesla, musk" and it will start sending you all new stories matching those words.

That's very helpful to decrease noise and only get what you're interested in.

Special tag [show] notifies about all 'Show HN' posts.

You can also use host names: "[show], github.io".

Direct link: https://t.me/hnbuzz_bot

https://www.reddit.com/r/cfs/ or similar might be a better place to ask this.

This better mousetrap looks promising.

Nice rant but the answer is simple - incentives.

Seems like there's not that much demand for what you would like to see.

Crappy, barely working, software now is better then 1 year delayed perfect one.

That's why you need to build something that is at least an order of magnitude better, so people can't ignore you.

Otherwise, yes, this was my experience too: in our noisy world dominated by huge corporations, indie hackers stand little chance to get their message out and pick some interest.

Something similar: https://t.me/hnbuzz_bot

Of course not :)

That's a bit different than saying that Fascism "has no grounding in economic theory nor in fostering discussions on how to allocate scarce resources".

Both Marxism and Fascism *can* provide valid discussions about economics and how to "allocate scarce resources".

So your argument that we can dismiss Fascism because it has no relation to economy is simply wrong.

There is plenty of economics in Fascism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

My main idea is that freelance sites are sort of broken: you pick a worker, he works on things for a while and then you see if he screwed up or not.

You can't really trust his profile. Reviews are also often inconclusive.

It would be better if you could submit a small milestone, let multiple people work on it and pick the best result. Then continue working with that developer.

And then this can be expanded into a platform where not only a single person can be an employer, but people can combine their funds to crowdsource various tasks. Good example would be open-source projects.

This should be a platform. The main problem is how to convince users to come and vote on projects. If you figure that out - you'll be a millionaire :)

One way might be through cryptocurrencies - users crowd-source the idea with money, then one or more developers submit MVP's, then users vote on those and the winner gets all the collected money, while users get the product they want. Sort of like improved Kickstarter.

SQLite might be a good choice for a project like this.

So all your sources for all categories are automated? My main worry was if you have to hunt for content manually - that might not be sustainable.

This would also be great for Telegram. You could easily forward daily content into a channel. Or even create a bot that allows people to subscribe only to some categories.

How do you plan to fill the database? Is it just one big database and you will cycle it or you plan to add to it every day?

Nicely done!

Somebody did write such a post, and in more details:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/platform-speech-governance-and-f...

I wrote a telegram bot specifically to filter HN posts:

https://solus.life/hnbuzz/

http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/ might help.

I don't think we should view the problem from the First Amendment point of view - it will be rather hard and cumbersome to come up with something useful this way.

Much simpler approach is to just allow users of any platform to self-govern in a transparent, consistent way, i.e. bring democracy to those platforms.

Anyway, we do need to have this discussion and it's nice to see legal arguments being put forward.

No, by "attacking" I mean interfering. Simply offending somebody is not an attack. If I say something to my followers - it's not an attack. If you don't like what I am saying, don't follow me.

If you, on the other hand, start actively replying to my tweets, and tweets of my followers, trying to disrupt our conversation - that's an attack.

I am not arguing about allowing everybody to do and say absolutely whatever they want. I am arguing that platforms must follow some sort of a mandatory democratic process that lets _their_users_ decide how to govern themselves.

And the role of the federal government is to enforce that democratic process on each platform, not to regulate speech directly.

Quotes are also pretty much ignored now. I don't know why.

If you attack somebody, then yes, it's an action within virtual walls. But if you simply share a thought with your followers that the platform owner doesn't agree with - your argument falls apart.

Insanely fast! Impressive.