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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by qecez »

0x_rs wrote: post #84
wildpeaks wrote: post #64

On top of it, it's not just a matter of creating an account because they get blocked within two minutes until you also give them your phone number, despite the registration pretends it's not required (because once you signed up, it's easier to trick people into giving up yet more information than asking for it upfront).

Which is not reassuring considering their past abuse of phone numbers provided for allegedly only security reasons. [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...

Just use a verification service like https://sms4sats.com

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by whoooooo123 »

ElFitz wrote: post #358
whoooooo123 wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"safety" is a term that's been abused since at least 1793: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety

The translation is inaccurate. It means safety in the same way as the salvation of the soul for Christians, but in a non-religious way, and applied to all of society. Yes, they were both quite grandiose in their wordings and full of themselves. Safety, as it is commonly used, would better be translated, in French, as "sûreté". "Salut" would be a much, much stronger word. Although I do see your point.

Well damn, that ruins one of my favourite points.

But I'm still not quite sure what the French word "salut" means. Is there not a simple one-word English translation? What exactly is the remit implied by the name Comité de salut public?

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by dredmorbius »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #223
f0e4c2f7 wrote: post #67

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I almost hesitate to share these because I too found that Reddit's dark patterns were a large part of what helped me break that habit. I recently discovered teddit.net which is a frontend for reddit with all dark patterns removed. There is also an alternative front end for twitter called nitter.net that you can use the same way to avoid the app / login.

For reddit, IMO the simplest things you can do to improve the experience is to force the old reddit design (old.reddit.com) when on desktop, and use any app except the official app when on mobile.

The problem with old.reddit.com (as opposed to teddit) is that numerous links on Reddit will redirect you to the New experience. Absent DNS hacks, you'll find yourself consistently frustrated by this.

With Teddit, AFAIU the rewrites will keep you on Teddit rather than bouncing from old (or i) to www.reddit.com.

Mind, Reddit shoud GDIAF. The growth hacking crap has also broken my own usage habit. I'll check in periodically, but quite infrequently. I've long since stopped adding new substantive content to my own subreddit(s) there.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by p4bl0 »

fsiefken wrote: post #433
habibur wrote: post #293

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We need to revive the ad free, commercial interest free Internet of the 90s. It will be small in size, but so was the internet back then. Someone should come up with a pub-sub distribute micro blogging service like how emails work.

gemini https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ fediverse: mastodon, pleroma, pixelfed indieweb: https://indieweb.org/ twtxt: https://indieweb.org/twtxt scuttlebutt https://scuttlebutt.nz/ hypercore https://hypercore-protocol.org/ (see iris.to for an implementation) https://quitsocialmedia.club/solutions

I would add RetroShare to the list.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by treesknees »

ohhhhhh wrote: post #437
yosito wrote: post #365

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Thanks. I broke my reddit habit when I realized that most of the communities on reddit are just ideological echo chambers where you get banned for saying anything the community doesn't agree with. It lost most of it's value when honest conversations couldn't take place anymore. Now the only time I use reddit is when the only search results with the answer to a question I have point to reddit, and I've grown very wear…

the hive-mind propaganda circle jerk took over, and many dont even realize they are still jerkin'

I'd argue that any site with like/dislike functions which influence the visibility of posts end up this way.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by the-dude »

sneak wrote: post #196
0x_rs wrote: post #84

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Which is not reassuring considering their past abuse of phone numbers provided for allegedly only security reasons. [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...

It's worse: Twitter staff sold private user PII to the Saudi government (the one that assassinates journalists): https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...

> Saudi government (the one that assassinates journalists):

Just like the US does : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how...

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by ok123456 »

dorkwood wrote: post #376
lowkey_ wrote: post #297

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The above commenter is correct, the original question is silly, however much flak they may get as people here love IRC. Do you genuinely believe (1) IRC is anywhere near as usable as Twitter for the general population, or that (2) a real-time chat is an equivalent offering to Twitter?

You just need to make an IRC channel that contains everyone in the world.

That's basically what twitter is.
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