Childish billionaires develop grudges against meany journalists who report on them. Welcome to the backlash.
They somehow have anti bot infra that is both incredibly annoying to real users and somewhat ineffective. And I'd even believe that they may have pretty good accuracy, but the sheer scale of the spam still impacts real users.
You can always ask for a refund in situations like this and resubscribe to x premium.
A real problem with these platforms not just x is mass reporting, fake DMCAs all pose vulnerabilities which are hard to address.
Even on HN, if you have non-conforming opinions of those with higher points, you will be censored, flagged etc.
Its not what it used to be, but HN is still better than most other places. I really think an LLM trained on its submissions/comment would be interesting
Would i say it's "right"? No. But it's literally what you're signing up for by using a closed service like Twitter. Free, open alternatives exist. Use them.
Then I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Account_migration
> ActivityPub has been criticized for not natively supporting moving accounts from one server to another, forcing implementations to build their own solutions. While there has been work on building a standardized system for migrating accounts using the Move activity via the Fediverse Enhancement Proposal organization, the current proposal only allows for basic follower migration, with all other data remaining linked to the original account.
How much of a problem is that in practice?
But if you get kicked out of HN, how are you supposed to setup the forwarding? Also, all your previous posts won’t be visible to anyone anymore, as your account will be blocked.
You’ll basically start out with a blank account, and only get to keep your followers if you’re still able to setup the forwarding on the old account.
"So, yep, I really wasn't even using my VPN that much recently - it's the same one I used for months.
And even bigger problem, of course, is - why just looking at my problem where a user with almost 1000 followers and a community that actively chats and spends a lot of time on X (usually, it's good for ad supported platforms).
So why even quite active paid users can't be checked in at least a day (I think it should be minutes but alas), why 5-7 days! ;-)"
>Why does my account have a label? >Transparency on X is very important. This is why we are letting you know that we have found your account may contain spam or be engaging in other types of inauthentic behaviors. You may not engage in behaviors that manipulate X or artificially impact how content is discovered and amplified.
>What does this mean for my account? >The reach of your account may be limited and its content may also be temporarily restricted, such as being excluded from trends, replies, and recommended notifications. You can learn more about this temporary impact to your account here. Our automated systems sometimes make mistakes and we are working to improve them.
No idea what the label is, what I did to incur it, or when if ever it will be lifted. The link to learn more is just generic boilerplate. Great system.
VPN usage is typically what causes that first image. You then click start and it makes you do a captcha or something. If you failed the captcha or whatever they asked you to do... that's on you.
It’s a weird feeling seeing my feed (I made a new account to view content shared via tweet because the feed is no longer public) and having no control over it.
krunck•7mo ago
strictnein•7mo ago
VPN users get "punished" because of abuse from other VPN users. It's that simple.
mingus88•7mo ago
But that has no substantive effect on if a site wants to block you. They’ll do that based on other indicators like geo-IP so committing a crime with an IP where you live is not a great idea.
Which is exactly why sites treat VPN blocks as low trust/reputation