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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by alex1138 »

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…

Which is one of the many many reasons Zuckerberg needs to be investigated the hell out of for every single thing he does

I grant you 2014 is 12 years ago now and you could plausibly argue it was their doing to grow network effects but I'm pretty sure WA had that infrastructure already in place - Acton, Koum et al already did the ground work to get carriers to... whatever it is

Zuckerberg stole it like he steals everything

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by NewJazz »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #220
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…

>Reddit is now this way too. You can still use https://old.reddit.com with no login. It's cleaner and snappier.

Is this a cruel joke?

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by Melatonic »

filoleg wrote: post #57
alyeska2 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even worse, it's hard or impossible to even have an account with any shred of privacy. I've tried to create pseudoanonymous accounts on both Bluesky and Twitter and then had them be instantly banned before I ever used them. Not even doing anything real privacy like TOR or a VPN, just trying to create an account without revealing my personal phone number. Ironically, their attempts to crack down on bots means real peo…

Just to clarify, what do you mean by "without revealing my personal phone number"? Did you use a voip number (e.g., Google Voice/Twilio/etc.) instead? Or somehow no number at all? Or a secondary (real) phone number, and Twitter somehow determined it wasn't your primary personal phone number? Not pushing back against what you said, just trying to understand what factually happened.

Can you use Google voice still without providing another phone number ?

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by hutattedonmyarm »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #220
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…

>Reddit is now this way too. You can still use https://old.reddit.com with no login. It's cleaner and snappier.

They're starting to block that and are starting to require logins for old reddit

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by Melatonic »

SoKamil wrote: post #8

It would be nice if URL schema was compatibile with X. In case of Nitter, I could’ve just replaced x.com with xcancel.com with a web extension and URL still works.

Was doing something similar. But couldn't this still be done with just a slightly more advanced replacement ?

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by Melatonic »

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

Something to use with a normal web browser that requires no login would be nice. Like Libreddit or Nitter.
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