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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by nottorp »

robot-wrangler wrote: post #17

Since we're doing PSAs, isn't it also now just a completely broken platform on mobile for everyone who isn't logged in? > Something went wrong, but don't fret - let's give it another shot. This is all I've seen for literally years now. No real error, does not even say to login or install an app, just blames it on my privacy extensions (I don't actually have any) and offers a button to pointlessly try again. No big lo…

No, it's also completely broken on desktop. Still have one or two friends who insist on sending twitter links. I don't click.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by tiberius_p »

nomdep wrote: post #81
elAhmo wrote: post #70

Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.

Building rockets, moon bases, making fossil fuels less critical… yes, I agree

Starship will never get to the moon.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by MrOrelliOReilly »

nomdep wrote: post #96
robinhood wrote: post #66

I find it so sad that Twitter still gets traffic at all. Even if we put aside the super shady content on this platform (free speech, lol), the app, either on the web or mobile, has a sub-par user experience. I wish all the devs that I respect were using another platform.

The algorithm is a mirror: it show more of what you interact with. You see “shady content” because you pay attention to it. But you can also follow people and read only what they write, reply to them, and write yourself.

I find this a bit disingenuous.

If I visit a buffet looking for a healthy snack, but 90% of the dishes are fast food, then I'll probably spend a lot of time looking through the fast food, and may even eat some as the best worst option.

Similarly, I have found the overall content pool to have significantly worsened since Musk's takeover. The algorithm keeps serving me trash. It doesn't mean I want trash.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by mayneack »

gruez wrote: post #101
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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>Cutting food stamps. How is Musk involved in the current budget debacle aside from being "republican"? It's easy to blame stuff on him when he was running DOGE, but since his falling out with trump blaming every cut on Musk is a tired and expired meme.

Given how much he contributed to the election outcome it hardly seems tired to blame him for the consequences.

Plus he's on Twitter every week publicly discussing how much he uses the platform to put his thumb on the scale of discourse towards his personal beliefs.

In what world is he not involved?

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by lagniappe »

paxys wrote: post #57
CaptWillard wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fascinated with the number of users of this site who seem disproportionately invested in getting people to stop using Twitter.

Yeah it's so fascinating that people want an open internet rather than a small group of billionaires and big tech companies controlling everything. Truly bizarre.

If that were the reason we'd see even 10% of the same fervor for cutting out AWS or Cloudflare but we don't

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by SanjayMehta »

estimator7292 wrote: post #54
teiferer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When was that? Already pre-Elon it was terrible.

Sorry, are you actually five years old? Until just a few years ago Twitter was entirely open. You could view any and all public tweets, replies, threads. All exactly like you were logged in. Their APIs were open and you could literally plug the entire stream of all tweets from all users on the actual planet in real time into your own application.

Some years ago you could even subscribe to an RSS feed for each user.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by ceejayoz »

CaptWillard wrote: post #108
ceejayoz wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like how you complain about "propaganda at breathtaking scale" and you fell for the Twitter Files, which was... precisely that.

Please show your work.

Musk's own lawyers did the work for us.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/tech/twitter-files-lawyers/in...

> “Nothing in the new materials shows any governmental actor compelling or even discussing any content-moderation action with respect to Trump” and others participating in the suit, Twitter argued.

> The communications unearthed as part of the Twitter Files do not show coercion, Twitter’s lawyers wrote, “because they do not contain a specific government demand to remove content—let alone one backed by the threat of government sanction.”

> “Instead,” the filing continued, the communications “show that the [FBI] issued general updates about their efforts to combat foreign interference in the 2020 election.” The evidence outlined by Twitter’s lawyers is consistent with public statements by former Twitter employees and the FBI, along with prior CNN analysis of the Twitter Files.

> Altogether, the filing by Musk’s own corporate lawyers represents a step-by-step refutation of some of the most explosive claims to come out of the Twitter Files and that in some cases have been promoted by Musk himself.

Don't worry, though. Under Musk's leadership, free speech is well protected. Just ask https://x.com/elonjet, which Musk specifically promised (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456) to protect! They would never ban a news story just because it was from a hack! (https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-bloc...)

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