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marchdown on July 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying...

Unethical Thought Experiments: what if Twitter shrank the retweet button or hid it under the fold to but the brakes on the viral spread?

Put amplification behind a trivial inconvenience that would make knee-jerk retweets less frequent and allow the whole chain reaction to cool down.

dropofwill on July 6, 2020 [–]

Instagram doesn’t have a share/repost feature, but people still do it a lot, either manually or through 3rd part integrations.

This leads to other problems like blocking someone, but still seeing their content because it gets reposted a lot.

meheleventyone on July 6, 2020 | [–]

Twitter didn’t either in the beginning.

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