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It's in your bio
How is "go to my bio for a link" better than just providing the link?
Avoids the slippery slope of those links. I say ban them.
Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
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Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
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Did you read the actual block quote? > we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these JSFiddle shadow-ban these scam accounts, and they asked Twitter to do the same but Twitter bans _all_ JSFiddle URLs instead.
I may be misinterpreting them but from the "wallet codes are ok" part it sounded like they weren't banning them. If by shadow ban they mean the link is completely inaccessible to other users then I'll agree that they were doing their part and banning links to their site was excessive.
"Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything", therefore "wallet codes are ok" since "anyone can post anything".
A shadow ban normally means that you, the creator, can see your content, but nobody else can. So them shadow banning people who post wallet codes is the direct opposite of allowing wallet codes.
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#203> Twitter just went the easy route and blocked all jsfiddle.net links instead of blocking spammer accounts on their platform. This is a huge problem with all the tech giants that needs to be addressed. I don't expect them to be perfect but I expect them to be open to communications on any level. I also think Twitter is the Twitter today just because of the bots and fake accounts they have since those accounts were cr…
> I know people whose spending days by reading those fake accounts while they have no idea what's fake and what's real That's not your point I think, but fake|bots accounts and subs are among the best things we got from twitter/reddit in my opinion. Aside from the ones designed to be funny from the start, the nonsensical ones also blend perfectly with what we would call 'legit' users and serious posts/communities. Th…
You're right, I was aiming the spammers by fake/bot accounts. Not the ones that are useful or fun.
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
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Steam does this: > Notice: > You are leaving Steam. > Never enter your Steam password on an untrusted website. Any login form on an official Steam site will display "Valve Corp." in green with a padlock icon in your browser’s address bar, as shown below: https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://anyURL For anything that looks malicious (" "" rel="nofollow">https://anyURL " ): > Link Blocked! > This link has…
This isn't even true anymore, though. Chrome doesn't display TLS as green, and I believe EV certs are on the way out. (Because anyone can register a company called "Valve Corp." and be issued an EV certificate.)
This is inside of steam's browser
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#205At what point is the tech community going to abandon twitter? From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda. I see very little social utility for using the network, especially when compared to the damage it is causing through the spread of misinformation and outright lies.
Try unfollowing the bots, influencers, and propaganda pushers.
it is easier to just stop using twitter.
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#206At what point is the tech community going to abandon twitter? From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda. I see very little social utility for using the network, especially when compared to the damage it is causing through the spread of misinformation and outright lies.
I think you're preaching to the wrong platform here. HN is one of few corporate tech forums out there and twitter is a very corporate medium. Whole twitter culture honestly is quite saddening and it's leaking to alternative mediums as well (like mastodon.social has started to suffer from same problems). We worked so hard to create easy and accessible way to micro blog and communicate through text via formatting, prop…
You're right about this being the wrong forum. However I used to work in corporate tech and even then I found it to be an inefficient time sink.
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> I hope Twitter makes a ‘retro’ mode where I can just see the actual tweets of only the people I follow in semi-chronological order. With the option to turn off retweets for certain users. I think both of these exist? There's a way to turn off retweets for particular users (it's in the same menu you'd use to mute or block someone) and there's an option to show a plain timeline (uncheck "show the best tweets first").…
Yes I'm sure there's some workaround way to do it either through custom lists or using Tweetdeck (or some other app) but I've tried those and unless it's the primary feed with full native mobile support the UX is awful and Twitter still finds ways to force content on you. Twitter is pretty simple fundamentally. It is just the feed with some notifications for 90% of the UX. I just want a different kind of primary feed…
Just sounds like way more effort than is worthwhile to curate that information and filter out the garbage.
I have very limited connectivity and spend minimal time online, twitter is time wasted for me.