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@mmasnick Thanks!
@mmasnick Any pointers where to read about that Spoutable drama?
"When they began writing their game, eventually to be called Elite, eventually to be a landmark in the history of computer games, what they were thinking of conformed pretty much to the standard video-game formulas of the time, albeit with extra graphical whizz." https://web.archive.org/web/20031202015454/http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1065455,00.html (2003 archive with original formatting)
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near on Twitter

“heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective, is entirely feasible with the current state of AI/LLMs”

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@Pwnallthethings I wonder what about "I'm at username AT M."

@Pwnallthethings

>Prohibited platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr

>and Nostr

Now this just made me LOL

@mmasnick There were a couple of 100+ comments discussions on HN if you are interested:

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061 (11 months ago)

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 (21 days ago)

Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter | Hacker News

@dalias @matthew_d_green Link to 50+min soundcloud recording in this tweet: https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1603629326787874817
Timothy Burke on Twitter

“since @katienotopoulos's Twitter Space featuring banned journalists was itself banned I have archived it (the last 50 or so minutes of it, at least) here https://t.co/LkvCIbbaGD”

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@matthew_d_green I don't know about Twitter but there was an interesting Gizmodo piece from May about Facebook News Feed algorithm (with a big collection of actual leaked documents which I didn't have time to read): https://gizmodo.com/facebook-news-feed-ranking-algorithms-how-they-work-1848814459
Here's What the Facebook Papers Say About the Ranking Algorithms That Control Your News Feed

Facebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that it led to unhealthy behaviors.

Gizmodo