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Alex Gleason
Personal blog · blog.alexgleason.meprogrammingwebculture
Alex Gleason's personal blog at blog.alexgleason.me covers programming, web and culture. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its posts as sources on the author's views on gender and trans issues, and on the Gab block and Pleroma disputes. The comments are mostly about the author, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /trans/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
- /gab-block/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-15
- /pleroma-is-dead/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
What Hacker News says?
Well, you can probably easily see how this: https://blog.alexgleason.me/trans/ would trigger some people
Comment linking /trans/
on “Mastodon.technology Shutdown”Submitted Parler’s epic fail: A crash course on running your own servers as a story · 137 points
HN discussionI would advise against soapbox actually. The developer got kicked off the Pleroma project after badgering other maintainers[1] (which he admits to doing) for reverting a technical decision he forced through after it was deemed to be not very useful to the project and encouraged bad practices (the fediverse uses a protocol called WebFinger to find other users, the developer wanted to add a bunch of alternate endpoint…
Comment linking /pleroma-is-dead/
on “Mastodon.technology Shutdown”Submitted Alternative web browser is horrible, and I like it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUnlike J.K. Rowling (I only know about a few dramas, maybe there were some that I missed) this person is an actual TERF. He basically says that because a trans person once molested a girl then all transgender people are bad, along with all the other usual TERF arguments. See https://blog.alexgleason.me/trans/ for his opinions. Although I personally do not think that the authors personality/opinions/etc should be con…
Comment linking /trans/
on “Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server”Submitted Starting a Fediverse Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey started out as a Mastodon node, and then got blocked by the wider Fediverse. https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/
Comment linking /gab-block/
on “Parler is back online after a month of downtime”> Because the things he says are contradictory, often very vague, and often extremely naive, either intentionally or unintentionally, regarding how hard it is to moderate content. As numerous industry leaders have pointed out, people on the Left think the Left is getting overly censored, people on the Right think the right is getting overly censored, in actuality it's an extremely complex system and the site admins…
Comment linking /gab-block/
on “A Linux Command Got My Twitter Account Locked for Abuse and Violation”Would you consider this person[1] to be transphobic? He is not a conservative and yet holds similar views to that of Shapiro. [1] https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/
Comment linking /gab-block/
on “68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump”Your comment was better when it was strictly informational. I didn't know Soapbox originated from Gab. That's interesting... As to your other assertion, the author's view on sex and gender would have been considered liberal ten years ago. The section on his views in this post below is definitely not right wing or conservative at all. https://blog.alexgleason.me/trans/ At most you can say the author speaks without th…
Comment linking /trans/
on “Soapbox, a Web UI for the Fediverse, releases version 3.0”For context and history about Soapbox: it originated from the Gab.com's frontend, and is developed by Alex Gleason, an infamous transphobe/alt-right dude. His involvement in Pleroma made many of its developers leave the project, e.g.: https://hacktivis.me/articles/Update%20on%20Pleroma%20Mainta... & he excessively whined about it: https://blog.alexgleason.me/pleroma-is-dead/
Comment linking /pleroma-is-dead/
on “Soapbox, a Web UI for the Fediverse, releases version 3.0”