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On the plus side, at least right now as I write this (the post has been up for 5 hours, with 96 comments), there is, in this HN post:

* No mention of the Twitter thread being better as a blog post, and someone has already posted a Thread Reader App link with the thread unrolled.

* A single instance of someone getting corrected for misgendering, but with no follow-ups or toxic discussion around it.

So maybe things are getting better?

But really, though, I just kinda find foone's annoyance about being posted on HN to be annoying in and of itself. The bot @-mentions I agree are annoying (and I don't know of a good solution; playing ban whack-a-mole every time a new one pops up is lame to have to do), but the other bits have a simple solution: don't read the HN comments. I know sometimes it's hard to resist the temptation, but I personally appreciate these foone threads getting posted here (as I don't really use Twitter much, so I wouldn't otherwise see them). And it's just a little weird to criticize people for linking to something you posted on the web, since linking is what the web is for.



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