AudaciousCo

Ask HN: Never been logged out of Browser FB/Twttr for years and ok with it. You?

Posted by AudaciousCo on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

My browser sessions for Facebook and Twitter have never been logged out. And I'm ok with this. Nothing bad has ever happened. I do lock my laptop screen when I'm not on it, I don't trust everyone to not do some mischief given the chance.Aggressive arbitrary session timeouts in cloud apps is frustrating, especially if your password manager is inconsistent in its ability to autofill...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more? on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @01:49PM (#25573290)

The UK appointed a Minister of Loneliness in 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/minister-lonelines...

The reality is the changing social dynamics of a population spending increasing amount of time on the internet and less inclined to do things in-person, amplified by people choosing to have 'busier' lives, is the direction we are currently heading in.

We need top down (govt) and bottom up (community) efforts to start real change that can gain momentum (network effects for the founder inclined).

Working on experiments to chip away at this from the bottom up .