Even if you are not American, HN is very tied to American culture, so I assume you dislike either Trump or Biden (or both). Which one should be able to arrest people more easily for their online posts? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7pyjxjxrvo

Are you a big fan of Peter Thiel? If not, why give him more power and money? https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit...

Cementing Trump and friends' power may be considered some form of stabilization, but it's not one that I'm a fan of.

If some sites like Facebook want to be real-name only, that's fine. People can use Facebook for that if they choose. But don't ban alternatives for people who want alternatives.

Uptight progressives: Your sexual desires are "problematic"

The former group certainly tends to have more power, but the latter are somewhat annoying because they're harder to spot and avoid. But unfortunately, certain legislation cannot be avoided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSTA-SESTA

This bill killed the greatest source of incredibly-specific sexual encounters and exploration the internet has ever known: Craigslist Casual Encounters. Whether you were looking for a man, woman, other, or a group, or so on, whether you sought something vanilla or a combination of kinks you made up in your dreams the night before, you could advertise it or seek it there. Ads could contain nudity, you could view them publicly, you could message people through anonymous email relay without making an account - and it all happened openly (yet with privacy) on a well-known website that people used for all sorts of things. Nothing else on the internet today compares and it's likely impossible to recreate.

I meet most of my partners in real life just out and about, and only used online apps for very specific kinky stuff (which has caused me to get banned from regular dating apps lol). I still lament the loss of craigslist, so I installed Feeld.

However, Feeld is fucking terrible. One of the worst apps I've ever used in my life.

The design is good in theory, you can swipe through profiles without having to make a decision, then go back and say yes or no to partners at your leisure. You can list pretty much whatever you want in your profile as long as you keep the public pictures PG13 to keep the app store gods happy. You can pay for more matches or to send pings (extra notifications that people can see without matching you), or pay a fee to see everyone who has ever matched with you. The business model is super straightforward, no deception there.

But it is honestly the buggiest app I have ever used in my life. I would get a message notification and I would have to restart the app each time to view a message. I thought maybe it was just my cheap-ish Android phone, but I confirmed with my friend who uses a more expensive iPhone that the same thing happens for him. He could barely get it to work as well. We are both tech professionals.

They also never seem to address key complaints in design. To keep it hacker news safe, let's say you are interested in spanking. You can list "spanking" in your interests area, but there is nothing to indicate if you want to spank someone else, be spanked, or both.

I think they are clearly coasting on the lack of competition in the space, and after a major update it got even worse.

I decided I would no longer use it because I don't want to meet people with such low quality standards for software, because what else might they have low standards for in life?

I just travel light. I can fit a laptop, toothbrush, phone charger, electric shaver, and a week or two of clothes in a backpack. I remember packing more when I was younger but I don't remember why.

This has certainly not been my experience on the web!

Jokes aside, I agree with your point on controls loading first.

The web need not be homogenous. Omegle, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, hacker news... They can all exist differently and that's fine.

"The graveyard is full of people who had the right of way."