Discussion on X Platform's Webview Behavior and Search Engine Content Curation
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Summary
The article appears to be a Hacker News discussion about X (formerly Twitter) opening tweet links in webviews regardless of user interaction, but the provided content fragment is incomplete and seems to contain commentary about search engines, AI, and content curation. The discussion touches on issues of content moderation, SEO exploitation, and the role of AI in web indexing, with criticism of major search engines as 'propaganda engines' and discussion of how to create better content curation systems.
Key quotes
· 4 pullednothing but a propaganda engine
A search engine which prioritizes free content, reviewed intelligently, is curation, and not Goodharted gotcha games
If you can crawl the web and index sites with human level content curation, with a reasonably performant scaffolding, you can prevent SEO style exploitation
Most AIs use bing and google, so the best you can get is a curated list from the already censored and polit
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