I posted this in a previous thread. here's some ublock origin filters to restore Twitter to logged-out usability:
Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing about this requires blockchain. There are plenty of Twitter archive sites like nitter.net that are not only open source, but also have plenty[0] of distributed instances on good old "web 2" [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Nitter can only archive (and update) data Twitter allows them to access. For example, you cannot see who liked a Tweet on Nitter.
> For example, you cannot see who liked a Tweet on Nitter.
That's a positive feature.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#133I could not solve Twitter, whether I used a third-party app, a separate account, or browser extensions.
The solution I came to has genuinely brought joy into my daily life: delete my account completely, and don't look back.
I highly recommend it!
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#134I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…
> I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like.
For me, that is actually one of the biggest annoyances with twitter. People who threaten to unfollow me or to block me if I follow or give a like to somebody who they don't like. Granted, it's not a practical problem yet because I only have very few followers, but it still annoys me. One of the reasons I have two accounts is that I want to follow "mutually exclusive" people. Maybe twitter shouldn't even show to other people what I liked or who I follow. Or the culture has to be changed to be more relaxed.
Another thing that is related is that everybody is in their own cozy bubble, and when something from outside seeps in they get worked up.
For those reasons I think the "feed" model of social media is broken, and the "cozy filter bubble feed" even more so. I want the old "social network" model from early Facebook and MySpace back, where you have a page, you can present youself there, and you can see who knows whom IRL.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Consider a third-party client. You’ll get a chronological view of tweets from people you follow, without ads. You do lose access to a few extras (like polls), but the tradeoff might be worth it to you.
Or don't follow anyone (or follow your friends if they think it's a nice social signal). Put all the interesting people in lists and view the lists in https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ instead of the usual UI.
This is pretty much what I do, although tweetdeck can be a little overwhelming at times if you are a casual viewer. Scrolling through this thread it seems that lists are an underrated feature.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#136I fixed my twitter feed by unfollowing anyone the first time something they did resulted in me being upset. Even if it was a like. It's just not worth it. For about a year or two my feed was great. Then the topics started coming in. First it was infosec and cybersecurity and they were fine for a bit so I tolerated it. But then it turned into just a bunch of hot women saying basically nothing. If before it was some ra…
Your problem is that you are looking at your feed. Do it this way: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/
That's completely wrong to me. I don't follow somebody on twitter to read what they write specifically. I only know one or two people who write interesting content directly to twitter. I am in it specifically for the recommendations, and for content discovery.
And from a content producer's side, I want random people who follow me to read my tweets. How else could they find me in the first place? Just from retweets from my followers alone? If anything, I think that people are not seeing enough tweets outside of their filter bubble.
Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#137I posted this in a previous thread. here's some ublock origin filters to restore Twitter to logged-out usability: https://pastebin.com/U9rpcCuq
Thanks for this. A question though, for someone who doesn't do web design. All those are CSS classes, or IDs I assume?
Is Twitter running some minification or obfuscation script on their HTML? Is there any guarantee those classes / IDs won't change later?
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#138New management
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#139On my machines twitter got blocked. That's what happened to twitter. At least for me. It's a terrible website. Character limit leads to terribly shallow discussions that still need to be split into multiple posts. It's a dumb medium of exchange.
As bad as Twitter is, blogging is essentially dead. Wordpress's free product is garbage that now runs block ads, breaking the flow of content, and Substack is Y Combinator, which to a lot of people is a turn-off given the incubator's historical association with DVFs (domestic violence founders). Ultimately, the greatest danger to the written word is that, because it is so easily indexed, fascistic employers (pardon t…
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Re: Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
#140Plugging my fe-alts repo [1], a way to launch your own instances of alternative website front-ends. Includes nitter (twitter) invidious (youtube) bibliogram (instagram) scribe (medium) and teddit (reddit). You can launch and configure them all with a single docker-compose, and since they are your own instances, there are no rate limits. They also support RSS.
My life has substantially improved once I replaced default front-ends