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First, it was hours. Second, I'm there more for the tpot/schizo/alternative content. Most importantly though, it's not just a couple hours of difference, but the content is different: raw, with live comments (from the people you follow pulled up), memes, etc. It's the vibe you used to find on usenet and then blogosphere.
What is schizo content
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Twitter is by far the best source of news and analysis currently. Outpaced only in some areas by niche, usually also crowd-sourced, sites like HN. A week ago twitter had pictures and videos from several angles of assasination attempt on Trump when media still reported "an incident." The difference is wild. Ditching twitter is like going back from old-school news tv to a telegraph. Anyway, I have strict tracking prote…
I’m gonna take your words at face value and ask you a question: what do you gain in gettin access to that news a few minutes in advance?
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I, for one, don't make accounts on services with a hate speech rate as high as current Twitter. I'd consider an account an indirect endorsement.
What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?
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Pretty sure this is sentiment of the crowd here. But I'm not sure if the general public will see it that way.
I think Twitter will probably remain popular for a long time, especially for people with a more right leaning perspective on the world. That's not really the people I associate with, and it probably needs to be mentioned here that I'm Danish. Which matters because the sort of people who post right leaning stuff here are kind of your crazy uncle on Facebook kind of people. Which means that Danish Twitter is slowly bec…
Why add this without any source lol?
Things like the leftie Palestine protests and the news streamer Hasanabi extensively get news from and use Twitter.
* as in you can't see the whole thread when people give you a twitter link if you don't have an account.
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I’m gonna take your words at face value and ask you a question: what do you gain in gettin access to that news a few minutes in advance?
It is not just speed. The media don't show you everything and almost all of them are highly selective.
Unfortunately, the latest build of Firefox Focus for iOS — what ought to be Safari plus all of the good parts of Firefox’s tracker blocking — seems to now allow x.com to open. I’ve also started seeing ads where they were blocked before (e.g. theguardian.com.)
Works fine for me on Firefox mobile with strict tracking protection enabled.
all x/twitter links have been login-walled for me for quite some time now, probably since around the time Elon took over, so I just stopped clicking any links or visiting the site entirely... since I literally can't if I wanted to anyways (I refuse to make an account and nitter stopped working).
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