Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

> Can you elaborate on what 'twitfuckers' means

It means "twitter.com" plus "my frustration with twitter.com".

> If you're signed in you'd see threads, right?

I shouldn't have to sign in to see threads.

> Do you think it's bad or unreasonable

Yes. I don't buy that bots are the reason for hiding threads. It reminds me of pinterest and linkedin: show a teaser and then turn the screws on the user until they do what you want. It's greedy and crude.




> "I shouldn't have to sign in to see threads."

Why? Do you pay them towards their the CPU, bandwidth, and other operation costs?

> "Yes. I don't buy that bots are the reason for hiding threads. It reminds me of pinterest and linkedin: show a teaser and then turn the screws on the user until they do what you want. It's greedy and crude."

Why can't it be both? I guess you should try to create a competitor of Twitter-X and take on all those costs yourself, so you can see for yourself if scraping-bots (and the purposes for that occurring) are a sustainable business model or a sustainable way to moderate a massive network of people communicating in public - where maximizing for real conversation is seemingly necessary, especially now with AI being able to simply flood threads with realistic long-form conversation - which on its own could be used as an attack vector to agitate or waste people's time and attention on non-real people who aren't influenceable to help open their eyes to perhaps not believing propaganda they've been indoctrinated with.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: