Yik Yak had finally Yakked for the last time
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The company’s founders, Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington
No, that sentence did not come from an episode of The Simpsons.
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As Ars reported last year, the Yik Yak app allows users to post anonymous or pseudonymous messages restricted within a certain GPS radius. While many of the messages are silly or goofy, the app often results in a cesspool of hateful speech.
Fix the users.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Yik Yak had finally Yakked for the last time:
the app often results in a cesspool of hateful speech.
So they lost against Twitter, which has a bigger cesspool?
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How did this company, which Ars named as part of our Deathwatch 2017, raise over $70 million again?
Idiotic venture capitalists looking for a quick buck?
@Adynathos said in Yik Yak had finally Yakked for the last time:
So they lost against Twitter, which has a bigger cesspool?
, Twatter isn't totally anonymous, and has at least basic tools like blocking implemented.
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Today they realised anonymity actually sucks when implemented in a technological solution?
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@Adynathos said in Yik Yak had finally Yakked for the last time:
So they lost against Twitter, which has a bigger cesspool?
It's also spookier since you know the cess is in your local pool.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Yik Yak had finally Yakked for the last time:
Fix the users.
Or use a system that fosters civilized discourse.
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@remi said in Yik Yak had finally Yakked for the last time:
Or use a system that fosters civilized discourse.
What about a system that civics fossilised discourse?
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@RaceProUK I'd be ok with a system that discusses fossilised civilisations.
What are we doing now?
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A FOSS system that disses civics courses?