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oulipotoday at 7:14 PM4 repliesview on HN

Not sure why of all people, Moxie Marlinspike would stay on this cesspool of a network that is X


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delishtoday at 7:22 PM

I'm open to correction on which rule to cite, or whether to cite a rule:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Picking:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

I understand the partisan juxtaposition of "X" and Moxie Marlinspike, and the partisan appeal of commenting on it, but to me it is a tangential annoyance.

jjtheblunttoday at 7:37 PM

I'm curious what cesspool you mean, because i can see cutting edge true hardcore science publication announcements on X better than elsewhere.

i ask because i evidently have tuned my account parameters somehow way the heck better than you experience.

I _do_ still see what look like rage-bait nonsense that people post for clicks, totally unrelated to medicine or biology, so i block or mute that nonsense. I'm guessing that's part of the cesspool but you may see different stuff.

phoronixrlytoday at 7:16 PM

Why do you think Moxie Marlinspike is not the type of person that would stay on this cesspool of a network that is X? From what I've seen I'd have been very surprised to see him anywhere else.

It is ironic that the founder of maybe the most popular privacy-conscious IM app is actively contributing to his and his followers' data being harvested on X though.

moralestapiatoday at 7:25 PM

Not sure what image you have of him. But a cesspool is where he belongs, imo.