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Re:Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN? by moritzwarhier on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:49PM (#40393067)
No, it's not just you.

Paywals might be debatable, but login-walled links to social media are not in the spirit of HN as I imagine it.

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Re:Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN? by baby on Friday May 17, 2024 @09:30PM (#40395813)
Everyone has twitter and it's for free, paywall is not debatable imo
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Re:Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN? by moritzwarhier on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:22PM (#40396055)
I don't have Twitter anymore and I'm not planning to change that.

With "debatable", I meant that paywalls are more acceptable to me.

Luckily, anything worthwhile originally posted on X tends to surface on the open web after a while anyway. And most of the times, the value of xitter threads is entirely in external links anyway.

So OK, to each their own.

I hope this won't extend towards tolerating links to Instagram or Facebook groups as HN submissions.

Not for me to decide.

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