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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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You're not required to do anything. Consider though that if you refuse to see the good in people you disagree with, you have little room to complain when they refuse to see the good in you.

I'll happily do that for the guy who cuts me off in traffic. One of the fascists that is destroying my country? Fuck no, no consideration for them.

There's a lot of overlap between those two groups. Half of the country voted for Trump in the last election, a few of them are probably your neighbors. They control the presidency and a majority in the house and senate. You better hope they don't all decide they feel the same way about you that you apparently do about them.

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

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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…

I set up a URL redirect rule in Edge/Brave/Chrome with the extension URL Auto Redirector (previously used Redirector but it was removed, there are other alternatives available for Firefox I'm sure). I also found a similar front end for Instagram but just added a rule yesterday so haven't tested it extensively yet. I avoid most Twitter/X content after I deleted my account but it's helpful when it gets linked in HN. So…

For Kagi users - it's also possible to redirect it in Kagi with redirect rules in search settings:

   ^https://x.com|https://xcancel.com

  ^https://instagram.com|https://imginn.com

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

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I think what's disappointing is that so many people that I've followed for years now routinely engage in daily political slapfights, or at least retweet ragebait. In the blogging era, it would have been really weird for a software engineer to sit down and write several paragraphs about their political views, but the friction of hitting "repost" is so comparatively low that everyone does it. Myself included, honestly,…

To follow topics on Bluesky, add feeds for those topics. The "Following" tab is literally that - chronologically ordered posts and replies from accounts you follow. The "Discover" and "Popular with Friends" tabs give you algorithm-sourced stuff that is somewhat connected to who you follow. When I click on the tab for the Game Dev feed, I see nothing but posts about game dev. When I click on the Astronomy feed, I only…

The reality is that microblogging, whether it be on X or bluesky or mastadon or even facebook posts, will ALWAYS be lower signal, lower value than real, curated or effort filled content.

I like John Green a lot, including his vlogs that are just him speaking about stuff he doesn't know for half an hour, but I still do not go read what he posts on Bluesky, because it's as low quality, low signal, low intent, and low effort as comments here on HN.

It's just not useful. It's not a good use of my time to read random tweets from people.

When I first got a twitter account in like 2010, I very very instantly recognized it was not for me. If something is important, someone will take the effort to make an actual piece of real content about it, like a blog or video or essay or book. Hell, even a thorough reddit post is better than microblogging.

If it's not worth going through that effort to get the message out to people, why should I consider that a valuable message?

It's emblematic of the past 20 years of social development in my opinion. If the only thing stopping you from getting the word about something super duper important is that writing a page essay is too hard, nobody really needs to care about that, because writing an essay is so easy we make children do it

It's all noise. The signal doesn't go on twitter, it goes on real platforms where you might make money from good signal, or like, a freaking scientific paper, or the front page of a news org.

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

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They didn’t do the same thing. Musk did a full on Sieg Heil motion repeatedly. The other people you mention without naming did not

No. There's plenty else to criticize Elon Musk for.

And yet we’re talking about the sieg heiling which you claim didn’t happen despite us all being able to watch it in 4K.

He’s got the personality of someone who grew up posting on /b and this is what it looks like in real life.

You are either wrong or lying when you claim he didn’t do a sieg heil

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

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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…

I set up a URL redirect rule in Edge/Brave/Chrome with the extension URL Auto Redirector (previously used Redirector but it was removed, there are other alternatives available for Firefox I'm sure). I also found a similar front end for Instagram but just added a rule yesterday so haven't tested it extensively yet. I avoid most Twitter/X content after I deleted my account but it's helpful when it gets linked in HN. So…

Thanks. You only need this single regex for instagram:

    ^https?://(?:www\.)?instagram.com/(.\*)

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

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I am not a republican. I am not a democrat. People who disagree with me aren't silent. I just graduated college and there they made sure people like me were silent. Reddit is similar. Most of western Europe, too.

Duck typing has you as a Republican.

Sorry bud, but you’re not getting the benefit of the doubt while defending reprehensible actions by Republican leaders that are plainly obvious to anyone who watched the event

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

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Open a private tab, navigate to x.com. All you see are heinous neonazis casually discussing the jewish question and fantasizing about race wars.

If you do that all you get is a login wall. Have you actually done this or is this what you imagine it to be?

I created an account, picked "pets" as my interest. I was suggested several pet-related accounts to follow, and followed none.

I went to the home page and "for you" was populated about 80% from known right accounts and angry right-flavored screeds from people I didn't recognize.

The other 20% was just a smattering of random, normal stuff. None of it about pets.

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

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Words have meaning. He said he does not hate him. That does not mean he likes him. Hate is a very strong emotion. Dislike is a much less stronger emotion. That is not all the same. (I also don't hate Elon, but I still don't like him or consider doing buisness with him in any way)

USAID was a highly effective and efficient operation. Musk dismembered it, leading to untold misery, death, and the spread of infectious diseases. I think this is reason enough to hate Musk. Also, keep in mind that what Musk did was a violation of the separation of powers in the Constitution, so he simultaneously killed a program which saved lives while he also started the U.S. on the road to authoritarianism. https:…

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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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Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.

>Nobody wants a damn web view. OP here. This might be a classic Hacker News sentiment that's not shared by normal users. Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people. (As would be preloading in this instance). FWIW when I first started browsing HN a common complaint was websites being mobile sized. The sentiment here was they should be ren…

In-app webviews are a usability disaster for normal users, I need to help a relative out of one at least once every few weeks.

The webviews don't have adblock so they fall for ads and scams, sometimes they don't properly follow UI scaling, they don't have the cookies or saved passwords needed to, for example, read a paywalled newspaper article that someone linked...

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

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I'll happily do that for the guy who cuts me off in traffic. One of the fascists that is destroying my country? Fuck no, no consideration for them.

There's a lot of overlap between those two groups. Half of the country voted for Trump in the last election, a few of them are probably your neighbors. They control the presidency and a majority in the house and senate. You better hope they don't all decide they feel the same way about you that you apparently do about them.

The largest share of the eligible voting population was the 'did not vote' group.

I'm OK with calling fascists what they are. I'm also OK with recognizing a neighbor who has been consumed by fascist propaganda.

The fascist is not one that can be negotiated with. As Sartre said:

"They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words."

I can negotiate with the propaganda poisoned neighbor. There is no negotiating with the people who are running the fascist show. Giving a fascist the benefit of the doubt is playing into their strategy.

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