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Twitter disables likes or comments on Substack?

by thomgo on 4/7/23, 1:14 PM with 13 comments

• by doomleika on 4/7/23, 3:20 PM

  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.

• by burn_cycle on 4/7/23, 3:18 PM

  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.

• by Firmwarrior on 4/7/23, 2:02 PM

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

  Good luck with that approach, Twitter..

• by rhyme-boss on 4/7/23, 3:00 PM

  How does that improve the experience of using Twitter?

• by jordanreger on 4/7/23, 2:33 PM

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

• by honkler on 4/7/23, 2:54 PM

  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.