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Strict tracking in firefox blocks the following: Social media trackers, Cross-site cookies in all windows, Tracking content in all windows, Cryptominers, Known and suspected fingerprinters. I wouldn't wanna use a site that relies on any of the above to function anyway.
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Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title - subtitle that repeats the title - first paragraph that repeats the subtitle - 30 paragraphs in complete disorder, half of which are a waste of time format Edit: someone on Twitter obviously als…
There’s a whole opaque and agenda laden algorithm determining which “guy with credentials” opinions you see, and zero standards.
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Actually, don't use Mastodon either, it's full of the same low quality commentary that you find on Twitter.
Mastodon doesn't have a fraction of the ground sources that Twitter has. You go to Twitter because that's where the people who know shit and tell you about shit are. It has nothing to do with Twitter itself. It's just network effects. I get why you're annoyed at Twitter (Elon) - I am too, and I still call it Twitter - but there just doesn't exist anything like Twitter. It's the only place where you can ask CEOs and C…
Fundamentally, what I don't like about Twitter is the low signal-to-noise ratio. Even if you try to curate the people you follow, Twitter will find a way to push useless stuff in front of you, and even the people who post interesting stuff tend to post pointless stuff from time to time because of the prevailing culture in Twitter.
And I also don't assign a lot of value to accessing ground sources in real time. If anything, I think people care too much about being up to date on everything.
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What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?
Respect and endorsement are not the same thing. Also, when tolerance is the goal, there must be an intolerance against intolerance - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
This is true, but has no bearing on posters that command neither my endorsement not my respect.
You get my endorsement if I agree with you. You get my respect even if I don't agree with you, provided you don't post lies and nonsense, AND are amenable to rational argument.
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Ok what is tpot content then? I genuinely have no idea what they meant by that
Few links for you: TPOT: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/tpot-postrat SCHIZO: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/schizoposting
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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?
You can, in general, in democratic countries, say more or less what you like (some exclusions apply). However, you can’t generally compel others to listen to it.
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There’s a whole opaque and agenda laden algorithm determining which “guy with credentials” opinions you see, and zero standards.
That's why you click on the "Following" tab, not the "For you" tab. Also, how is that any different from any other social media platform? Heck, I just opened Apple News and it recommended me a Buzzfeed article titled, "People are sharing moments where they saw millionaire's spoiled kids get humbled by the real world, and it's a trip".
There is a solution, but don't use it, use mastodon: In the settings, enable Firefox containers. This allows you to seperate the cookies of X from all other sites. Also install uBlockOrigin to block all trackers on X itself.
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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…
I love this comment, you are absolutely right. If every country/government would use the fediverse to enable free speech, and maybe even promote it, that would be a big step forward.
At least the EU is doing a lot of good work.
https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2022-07/22-07-26_tec...
We've fixed this issue on the Firefox side ~2 months ago. Here is the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1897379 It's possible that you have an extension installed that blocks e.g. Twitter's CDN. We've seen issues like that with the Disconnect Firefox extension.
This fix is no longer relevant as they no longer use twitter.com as of later today.