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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 nutjob2 »

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

> making fossil fuels less critical

Tesla for years made billions by enabling others to pollute, and it still does so.

Every EV Musk sells enables more ICE cars to stay on the road.

If you want to drink the kool-aid thats fine, but the facts are not on your side.

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

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Post by chairmansteve »

ndr wrote: post #170
bpavuk wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, there are platforms that did figure it out, but it's quite fractured. For US, you have Bluesky and Fediverse (Flipboard, Mastodon). In Ukraine, you can use Threads. Germany seems to love Bluesky and Mastodon, given the amount of independent Personal Data Servers and Mastodon instances located there.

Who is using Bluesky in the US? Whenever something big happens I keep getting x.com links from friends. Is it just my friends?

I am.... For what it's worth.

There are a few old FinTwit people who have migrated over. Mark Dow, IvanTheK. It works for me.

And Mastodon works too, once I had customised my feed. There are a lot of makers on it, and Cory Doctorow. I did have to filter out the "activists", but twitter has the same activist problem.

Believe me, you can live without Twitter.

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

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Post by derbOac »

as1mov wrote: post #142
input_sh wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below. And if you click on an account you just get top posts of all time instead of a chronological feed, so it's impossible to even find the context while being logged off.

Here's me complaining[1] about the login walls way back in 2021, this was before the Elon takeover. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268365 Edit: Some more posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472

Both are correct, at least according to my memory: you used to be able to read tweets without an account, but that stopped, and it stopped before Musk took over.

There were similar trends at other social media sites that happened around the same time.

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

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Post by nutjob2 »

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

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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.

"He gave the federal government organizational cancer, but he left now so he's not to blame"

Americans will be living with Musk's legacy for decades.

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

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Post by itsoktocry »

I've been a long-time Twitter user. I don't hate Elon, so when he bought it I was cautiously optimistic.

I deactivated last week. The platform is bad and getting worse. It's scammy and spammy. Everything is designed around garbage engagement, so that the X team can brag about how good the product is doing.

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

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Post by jelder »

PyWoody wrote: post #169
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…

Serious question: Why doesn't Google de-rank content that requires a login? I remember they used to claim they did but they clearly do not anymore.

That would be equivalent to demonetizing the entire web. Free content would win out over paid content regardless of quality. As the old adage goes, "when you're getting something for free, you're the product being sold." Only sites making money by, shall we say, "indirect" means would be able to survive. A search engine which prioritizes free content over paid would become nothing but a propaganda engine.

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

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #163
thrance wrote: post #134

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Either the democrats vote the budgets in which republicans have removed all healthcare funding and millions die of preventable diseases, or they don't and millions starve because republicans are illegally holding onto the money for food stamps. How is it on the democrats again?

You are ignoring the possibility of a CR, which would continue SNAP funding while allowing discussion on healthcare funding to continue.

If congressional Republicans could guarantee all funding will continue under a CR, I bet the shutdown would be over by now. But they can't, because in July they ratified Trump's authority to cancel any appropriated funding he wants. When challenged on rescissions, the Speaker said they're going to continue regardless!

How are budget negotiations supposed to work if one of the sides won't even promise to honor the agreements made?

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

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Post by jelder »

Zolomon wrote: post #32
teiferer wrote: post #26

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Always been like that. Twitter, Instagram, ... None of those platforms have usable UX if you're not logged in.

This is not true, this change is a recent phenomenon, I believe it came into effect sometime around 2021-2023 (maybe earlier even). I believe it changed when OpenAI showed the value of data. Before, there was no problem using Instagram or Twitter while not logged in. Now there is a dark pattern that forces you to create an account, or log in.

My recollection is that this happened pretty much immediately after Twitter became X.
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