Soatok DreamseekerDec 18

The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…

http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/

The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page - Dhole Moments

(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from “content aggregators” like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally un…

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Show threadSoatok DreamseekerDec 18

Haha, someone tried to be funny and submitted it to Hacker News.

Too bad it won't work. I'm pretty sure my blog's domain is shadowbanned. ;P

Show threadCursed SiliconDec 18
@soatok Marcan and jwz screaming "HOW DO I GET MINE BANNED"
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerDec 18
@CursedSilicon Well,
Show threadCursed SiliconDec 18

@soatok Shout out to the time I posted something I wrote to Lobsters

And it flagged ME as spamming on HN for trying to post it there as well

Turns out some fuckwit runs a bot that just auto-copies every Lobsters post over to the orange site

And the mods are just...cool with it???

Show threadTanaki (pumpkin spice loaf)Dec 18

@CursedSilicon @soatok holy fuck you're right

this makes me SO MAD it very explicitly says NOT TO DO THIS

Show threadSoatok DreamseekerDec 18
@tanaki @CursedSilicon I guess, maybe email [email protected] to ban your blog's domain name?
Show threadTanaki (pumpkin spice loaf)
@soatok @CursedSilicon wonder if i could file a DMCA request 😈
Dec 18 at 9:43pmWeb
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerDec 18

@tanaki @CursedSilicon I don't think this falls under DMCA's purview.

HN doesn't scrape/host content. It just links to it. The user has to provide a title, even.

Show threadDźwiedziuDec 19

@soatok
Like DMCA requesters care about such trivialities, like adhering to the law :p

@tanaki @CursedSilicon

Show threadDHeadshot's AltDec 20
@tanaki
Sadly, they probably wouldn't allow a GDPR right to be forgotten request either. Does California have something similar?
@soatok @CursedSilicon
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerDec 20

@ddlyh @tanaki @CursedSilicon GDPR would accomplish what, exactly?

They de-index the submission by marking it as [dead]?