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I discovered nitter.net, a Twitter proxy, same vein as Whoogle. When you get a twitter link, just replace twitter.com with nitter.net and you're good to go. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
I recently quit Twitter (almost[0]) and have been much happier ever since. It seems (to me) that the way Twitter increases "engagement" is to show you the tweets that will upset you the most, so that you can either reply with an angry thing of your own, or furiously "like" other angry responses. I tried to unfollow a lot of people who tend to post about controversial topics but Twitter keeps showing me their tweets o…
> It seems (to me) that the way Twitter increases "engagement" is to show you the tweets that will upset you the most I don't think upsetting you is an intentional design on the part of Twitter, it's just that optimising for engagement in the context of human psychology often leads to upsetting things being promoted because that's what humans naturally find engaging (though also unpleasant). I have a carefully curate…
My problem was not especially "ideological" people as much as "concerned" people. For example I followed a brilliant young French doctor who was usually entertaining, but who's incensed by all the antivax noise and who would regularly retweet antivax rhetoric, not to defend it of course but to expose it.
That would get me all worked up... and for what? There is no benefit to this for anyone (and not even for Twitter, as I only used it on desktop with an adblocker).
If I want to read interesting articles about any topic by many other means (including HN!); Twitter isn't bringing anything useful to me (but again, that's just me, YMMV, etc.)
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Old.reddit.com is the only remotely usable form of the website and seems to have none of the obnoxious popups.
I feel anxious every time I see old.reddit mentioned. If it gains traction, they may want to "improve" it.
Reddit jumped the shark already and the current state of affairs is an offense to the memory of Aaron Swartz. Problem is that a new mass migration (as happened in the Digg→Reddit move) is way more difficult due to the inertia and amount of content available. I just hope that, when it finally happens, it would be to a distributed or federated system -- Lemmy.ml seems to be the most promising for now.
Why do these companies enforce accounts? I thought they could track you and advertise to you just as easily without an account, using cookies.
> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
On a cell phone, I can type "best driveway shovel" on my phone, and it will take me to google. Google will have an overlay that tells me searching for the best driveway shovels is better in an app. I close that overlay. The first hit is twitter. The second is reddit. I skip twitter. I get an overlay telling me to install a reddit app, or continue in the website. I click continue in website. There is an overlay tellin…
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I disagree. When Reddit, Quora, Medium, Twitter started, they have posed themselves as privately owned public spaces, much like Wikipedia. This was the 'social' contract they presented to users. They built their monopolies on top of the goodwill of users. I'm pretty sure that subject matter experts who wrote extremely long-winded and well-researched articles on Roman battle tactics, did not do so with the intent, tha…
Thank god Stack Overflow hasn't gone in that direction.
Sorry! But you never know.
Are you aware that it's free to register for an account? What's the use case of reading Twitter but not having an account?
I tried to join once, several years back. I could create the account, and then use it for a few minutes. But even before posting anything, the account was suddenly locked and I was prompted to give a phone number to unlock it.
I didn't want to do that, obviously, so I ended up with an account that was pretty much unusable.
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> It seems (to me) that the way Twitter increases "engagement" is to show you the tweets that will upset you the most I don't think upsetting you is an intentional design on the part of Twitter, it's just that optimising for engagement in the context of human psychology often leads to upsetting things being promoted because that's what humans naturally find engaging (though also unpleasant). I have a carefully curate…
Well, maybe you succeeded, and if so good for you. In my experience, unfollowing does almost nothing. My problem was not especially "ideological" people as much as "concerned" people. For example I followed a brilliant young French doctor who was usually entertaining, but who's incensed by all the antivax noise and who would regularly retweet antivax rhetoric, not to defend it of course but to expose it. That would g…
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> When Reddit, Quora, Medium, Twitter started, they have posed themselves as privately owned public spaces, much like Wikipedia. You're misremembering, but please feel to prove me wrong by pointing to any of these services positioning themselves as the "Wikipedia of [thing they do]".
I used to use Quora a lot and that was pretty much Quora's mission statement. I can't find an explicit comparison to Wikipedia, although I've definitely seen that somewhere. But here are a few highlights from a post the founder wrote about the company's mission[1]: "Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge." "Quora aims to allow anyone to easily share their knowledge and in the process to dramatical…
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On a cell phone, I can type "best driveway shovel" on my phone, and it will take me to google. Google will have an overlay that tells me searching for the best driveway shovels is better in an app. I close that overlay. The first hit is twitter. The second is reddit. I skip twitter. I get an overlay telling me to install a reddit app, or continue in the website. I click continue in website. There is an overlay tellin…
Old.reddit.com is the only remotely usable form of the website and seems to have none of the obnoxious popups.