Twitter disables likes or comments on Substack?

Twitter disables likes or comments on Substack?(twitter.com)

80 points by thomgo 3 years ago | 13 comments

doomleika 3 years ago |

Welp, "copy from China" has begun, shadowbanning out link to competitor sites has been standard tactics in China SNS circle(QQ/WeChat/Weibo/Xiaohongshu/Tiktok).

I think it's due for U.S. tech company to learn a thing or two from the dark pattern in China.

toomuchtodo 3 years ago | |

This is just your run of the mill antitrust/anticompetitive behavior of a struggling firm. If you can’t compete, build a moat.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

burn_cycle 3 years ago |

I saw the announcement yesterday for 'Substack Notes', which is clearly inspired by Twitter, and thought to myself that these companies are going to clash sometime in the future. Pretty outrageous reaction, lol.

Firmwarrior 3 years ago |

Wow, sure enough: "Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter."

Good luck with that approach, Twitter..

rhyme-boss 3 years ago |

How does that improve the experience of using Twitter?

rsynnott 3 years ago | |

The grateful userbase is spared from being exposed to websites which Dear Leader has deemed unworthy, one assumes.

Nah, really, the answer is "what does the experience of using Twitter have to do with anything"?

jordanreger 3 years ago |

Good thing Substack is making their own Twitter... lol

honkler 3 years ago |

because substack is bringing out "Notes" – something that serves the same purpose as Twitter.

PS: @Dang, this post should be much higher on the front page.

whateveracct 3 years ago | |

Why "should" it be? Do you think there's some sort of downvote brigading going on suppressing it?

Firmwarrior 3 years ago | | |

I was pawing around deep in the third or fourth page off the main one when I ran across this, and was really surprised to find out it hadn't gone viral even though it proved to be true

I don't think there's anything wrong with it being unpopular, though. Personally, I hate Twitter and don't care if it lives or dies. But a lot of HackerNews readers seem really invested in the site and smaller news than this has dominated the front page before

byyll 3 years ago | | |

Nothing is suppressed. I see stories about Elon Musk/Twitter every day on HN basically. If anything it's the opposite of suppressed.

honkler 3 years ago | | |

No, sometimes important posts slip past by. And I made this comment when this post was not on the front page.