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Post by matesz »

Ex-x account holder here. Even if the world is going to fall and details about this even will be accessible exclusively behind X login wall, I am not setting up the account there again, NO WAY.

I wholeheartedly recommend you do the same - remove your account and forget about it. Almost certainly you won't miss it, as I didn't miss it. And there is a big chance you will get a big sight of relief, as I did.

If you really must, use https://twitterwebviewer.com/ which imo has better interface than Nitter.

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#892

Post by angoragoats »

strus wrote: post #883
shikck200 wrote: post #869

Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network. There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine). There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).

Sir, you are voluntarily using a website owned by an unstable Nazi, who purchased it because his feelings were hurt and people were making fun of him there. Now his brain droppings make it into everyone’s feed by default, from what I understand.

> There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine).

I am certain that Twitter is not the only place where you can find these updates, if you really care for up-to-the-minute news. But I don’t.

> There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).

These people and companies are (knowingly or unknowingly) supporting a Nazi billionaire and they are not worth paying any attention to until they change their behavior.

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#893

Post by philipallstar »

shikck200 wrote: post #869

Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

> Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

It's certainly more diverse than Bluesky, if this is an echo chamber-measuring contest.

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#894

Post by philipallstar »

phoghed wrote: post #886
shikck200 wrote: post #869

Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

Reddit is worse imo just because of how the site is structured and the power of mods.

Yes - community notes were a surprisingly decent alternative to more gameable authority structures.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#895

Post by angoragoats »

phoghed wrote: post #886
shikck200 wrote: post #869

Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

Reddit is worse imo just because of how the site is structured and the power of mods.

Option A: You occasionally encounter power tripping mods on a site where you are free to create your own community and become the mod yourself.

Option B: a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire owns the entire site and can change the site behavior for every user on a whim, with no recourse.

This doesn’t seem like a hard choice to make.

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#896

Post by haunter »

shikck200 wrote: post #869

Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

Unbeatable (just like reddit) if you want live sport replays. /r/soccer uploads goals before it happens on the broadcast I watch on my TV

Also the Asian community (Korea, Japan etc) is incredibly strong on Twitter. They don't really care about the whole politics around the platform.

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#897

Post by Banditoz »

matesz wrote: post #891

Ex-x account holder here. Even if the world is going to fall and details about this even will be accessible exclusively behind X login wall, I am not setting up the account there again, NO WAY. I wholeheartedly recommend you do the same - remove your account and forget about it. Almost certainly you won't miss it, as I didn't miss it. And there is a big chance you will get a big sight of relief, as I did. If you real…

I disagree. Nitter's big pull was lightweight SSR, this site is not that. Nitter also actually _looks like_ Twitter more than this site!

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#898

Post by philipallstar »

secretsatan wrote: post #876
HarlequinHair wrote: post #872

Earlier quoted context omitted.

General sentiment might be this, but every social network (even Instagram and Facebook) can be good and productive if you change how you use them. If you follow specific profiles/channels/pages and just read the feeds from them as if they were news, you are removing the toxic part (mostly infinite scrolling) and getting a resourceful feature. If for some reason someone you need to follow is on X (twitter) only, you h…

But it’s still supporting a man who’s a toxic as they come and working hard to distort reality and undermine democracy, you won’t wash that toxic off.

Allowing more voices on the platform might've made it more toxic (who knows - you're not the judge of toxic) but at least we have left- and right-wing toxicity, instead of only left-wing. And we get a lot of additional non-toxic voices, which was the actual point.

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#899

Post by dadoum »

strus wrote: post #883
shikck200 wrote: post #869

Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network. There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine). There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).

A half of Twitter's point for me was the trending section, that you don't have any control on now (you used to be able to disable the personalization of that section but since X you cannot, if you want the actual trends you need to go in a subsection). The whole section is full personalized ragebaits (because at some point I used to reply to those), now it just makes the experience of trends quite unbearable and I can't change that.

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#900

Post by garo-pro »

It's quite unfortunate, a lot of people or organisations I am interested in - AI for example - only post on X, and perhaps it's only a matter of time until services like bird.makeup also get taken down. Also, accessibility wise it's sad too, X's web interface is not the best out there and without login you cannot do really much.
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