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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by aucisson_masque »

deltoidmaximus wrote: post #84
omoikane wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluesky didn't require phone numbers back when it was invite only, and then there was a period of time after they allowed everyone to create accounts where users need a phone number to verify. That requirement might have been replaced by a captcha according to: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/2762 But I didn't try to create an account recently, maybe they went back to requiring phone numbers.

Lots of services demand your phone number after the fact now, hoping to use the sunk cost fallacy to extort it out of you when you're in a hurry. Walmart recently deleted my phone number from my account for vague reasons but most likely because another account had the same number. That other account is my wife and the number is our VoIP line. I have no desire to interact with walmart through my cell phone so I didn't…

> Then they just bought my actual cell number from my credit card company

Holy moly, don't you have any law at all to protect people's privacy ?

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Post by arjie »

phforms wrote: post #112
arjie wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The governments go where the people are. If they post on their own sites it’s the equivalent of “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’”. But government information should definitely be first source on their site with federation elsewhere.

Yeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform. In a broader sense, I believe that every person who publishes on the internet should have a standard way to keep their profile data (accounts, posts, etc.) in a secure, user-owned vault that is independent of any company or institution and platforms should have to pull data from that place (in…

ATProto attempted to do this with their PDS based structure but it isn’t fully decentralized yet. The vision is similar to what you describe though.

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Post by baggy_trough »

kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Create an account then? Not sure why that's an issue.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by urbandw311er »

randyrand wrote: post #114

Is this referring to the new Twitter company that recently launched ( https://twitter.now )? If not, then this is just going to lead to confusion.

I don’t think there will be any confusion. Clearly this is not referring to this random new Twitter thing you’ve linked to that most people have never heard of, it is referring to Twitter the previously global piece of software with hundreds of millions of former users.

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Post by CTDOCodebases »

a_imho wrote: post #37
kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Increasingly access is hidden behind mobile apps too, which in turn requires succumbing to app stores and handing over the keys to 2 giant US companies. For slopware and social media, fine. Some would even argue it is a blessing in disguise. However on the government level it is totally unacceptable. E.g. why should anyone and especially non US citizens accept the Google/Apple TOS in order to file their taxes, access…

It's all by design to. People call for social media regulation without realizing that it is by no coincidence these companies have been able to grow so large. The security state has been outsourced to private industry.

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Post by oriettaxx »

unethical_ban wrote: post #110
oriettaxx wrote: post #87

https://www.autistici.org offer great services with very strong effort to protect privacy, for more then 20 years, now... and all is done by volunteers. Very proud of their work, and kudos for affecting how the world is handling information and their will to do good

Now designated a terror organization by the current US administration.

yes, I've answered in the wrong post, sorry

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by [deleted] »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #95
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #30

API works great, for now https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id... Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking

Correction: https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweets/[username]?uid=[...

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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #95
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #30

API works great, for now https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id... Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking

Correction: https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweets/[username]?uid=[...

uid optional

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Post by baxtr »

ghusto wrote: post #109
kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…

I think my main communication is probably the last tool that I want to be government backed tbh.

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Post by bsimpson »

Marsymars wrote: post #118
bsimpson wrote: post #103

Are there any Instagram equivalents that don't suck? People love to virtue signal by linking to Twitter proxies, but Instagram is still a walled garden that all sorts of useful information (event details, restaurant menus, etc.) is locked inside. I occasionally have luck with whatever the top Google results are, but they're all encrusted with dodgy ads.

Depends if you want an alternate front-end and you can self-host, or you're looking for a third party. For the former, I generally look at what LibRedirect has as options: https://libredirect.manerakai.com/ Proxigram seems unmaintained, but kittygram seems to be actively developed: https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram

I've never had an Instagram account, and I'm trying to keep it that way.
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