>The sad thing is that I've reported these posts and they always say it doesn't violate their terms.
I'll just quote an experiment conducted by my colleague, where they tracked the outright malicious (porn, malware or fraud) ads they reported from a regular user account: "from January to November 2024, we tested (...) 122 such malicious ads (...) in 106 cases (86.8%), the reports were closed with the status “We did not remove the ad”, in 10 cases the ad was removed, and in 6 cases, we did not receive any response". That's not very encouraging.
Unrelated but similar story: my company (a Polish national CERT) published a technical blog post about how ad fraud proliferates on large online platforms, featuring Meta and Google [1]. Then a magic thing happened: facebook posts that linked to our publication started disappearing within a minute of publication. Including journalists and newspapers. Then posts about how the posts were removed started disappearing. Then facebook accounts - including journalists - writing about this were banned.
Sounds like a fairy tale, but it actually happened [2]. I suspect a human overreaction and then automated systems taking over. Anyway, eventually it was escalated really high up and resolved. I can't share any more details unfortunately, even though I'd like to write more about this.
this is super frustrating, as platforms such as Facebook and Twitter claim to be the digital equivalent of the "public town square" yet take on none of the responsibilities and transparency that come along with it, just all the profits.
I would suspect something a bit more sinister: the very organizations you are targeting probably started a mass campaign to "report" your content, which triggered automated systems that caused your posts to disappear. A more cynical me would add in the fact that any manual review by Facebook staff would trigger even more aggressive moves to silence you, given that you're directly accusing them of inadequate moderation of their platform, which at best doesn't make them look good, and at worst, means they lose advertising $$ that those groups may be spending with Facebook to target those very victims.
They claim to be the public square because they don't want you building your own square along side them.
The next time you hear them claiming to be a public square ask them if they're like to be regulated like a public utility. I think we all know how they'd answer that one.
Facebook is a cash machine. $62 billion net profit, from ads. Anything with that much revenue will attract fraud. Facebook will likely present themselves as victims, taken advantage of by organized criminals.
Sure, but prior to FB style ads, newspaper humans reviewed the ads prior to publishing them in the newspaper. They did things that didn't scale.
FB, Google, YouTube, and other ad markets don't give a crap about any of that, and print money by not giving a crap. Most of the those newspapers are out of business now, and/or were bought by special interests. This appears to me to be a clear net loss for humanity.
Remember that we are talking about accessibility, so the more images and animations and sound you have, the LESS accessible it is.
Also we're not comparing IRC and slack, but slack used from an IRC client and slack used from an electron client.
Perhaps you didn't completely understand what I was saying?
> Mobile app (for both android and ios) that provides access to all of those features
Nothing stops you from using all the clients you want? Again, I suspect you don't fully understand the thing you're hating on so hard.
> Accessible web application, that provides access to all of those features
Slow, and I'd like a disabled user to comment on that. Also not all features work on firefox.
> Voice calls
Doesn't work, but are you really claiming voice calls are more accessible than text? Have you asked a deaf person how they feel about voice calls?
> Actually, you can write to someone who is not online right now, something IRC doesn't support without a bouncer.
Works fine. Ok I realise you didn't read my comment and are just raging for no reason because you read "IRC" and got mad.
> A support for sharing images and files
Worksk fine with localslackirc. You can directly pipe the output of commands into channels
> Rich and granular permission system, suitable for a large organisation
> Webhook-based integrations
> A rich ecosystem of existing corporate integrations (like calendar integrations)
> Adding guests to channels, or bridging channels between servers
> Well documented and rich API
> Enterprise support
??? This has absolutely nothing to do with the client??
> Rich text formatting
Not supported
> Can easily share code blocks
Works fine, they're saved into text files
> Built-in OAuth/OIDC integration, that makes it easy to put it behind a company proxy.
Works fine with any authentication
> User statuses, avatars, metadata (like real name or team name), timezone-awareness
Avatar not supported, metadata is supported
> Search (!) with history, accessible for any device
Doesn't work, but it's of course accessible with other clients
> Project management features (lists etc)
If you do your project managing on slack, I'm glad I don't work with you :D
I'm also glad I don't work with someone who just reads 1 word and gets triggered into an OT rant, to be honest.
I'm not sure which mainstream you're talking about, but I'm relatively interested in mathematics (and a bit in formal logic), so I should be way ahead of the mainstream (generally uninterested in math), and I have no idea what you mean. I mean you may be right, but I don't don't even understand a hypothesis "there's no such thing as semantics".
For me, particular syntax of a particular representation and implementation is one thing, the isomorphic implementation-free math describing what it represents is semantics.
I.e. A natural number is a list of successor relations. It directly maps to the reality of collecting a series of units, by actually being a series/list of units.
Whereas, a natural number represented in binary doesn't look at all like what it represents, but is an isomorphic representation. It behaves the same way.
And can be interpreted the same way, when it is being used for that purpose.
So: Series/list of steps = Semantics, for a syntactic implementation of binary natural numbers. Only in the right context, where the latter is mean to represent the former, does the isomorphism relate the syntax to the semantics.
In another context, a series of binary values might just be a random pattern we used to mark a bunch of things we think are related. In that case, the semantics would be completely different, even though the syntax is identical.
But I have no idea how other's think about these things.
Pointless remark about myself, but I always set my phone's clock to second precision (I think this setting is hidden somewhere, or even needs a third-party app to unlock), and I am annoyed there's no way to do this on the lockscreen. How is it possible that nobody else (apparently) wants it, and it's not the Android default? Why would I want a clock that is, on average, a half minute off?
> Why would I want a clock that is, on average, a half minute off?
Because in 99.9% of the cases I don't care about the seconds, it takes away space in the top status bar, and the constant changing of seconds in the top-left corner of the screen is distracting. And for the remaining 0.1% of cases, there is the clock app that shows seconds.
What benefit do you gain in daily life by having the time down to the second? The argument "so it's not half a minute off on average" seems a bit self-referential.
> What benefit do you gain in daily life by having the time down to the second?
I commute by public transport and am sometimes cutting it fine, so knowing whether it is hh:mm:05 or hh:mm:55 does make a difference in how much I have to hurry up sometimes.
> and I am annoyed there's no way to do this on the lockscreen
With some OEMs there is (personally I know that current-ish Sony phones offer a corresponding option), but yeah, it is a bit annoying that that isn't universal… part of the reason I still carry a regular watch.
After you get to the cryptocurrency it's basically game over, you can earn over a million during a few market cycles, and the speed you can do it it raises (almost) exponentially. Stocks are similar, but much slower.
A blog post about how frustration with poor decompilation led me to dive deep into Ghidra's decompiler to discover (and reverse-engineer) - an obscure, undocumented DSL
