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Eh. It was pretty great in 2008, when I used my spotty cell service to tweet road trip updates by texting 40404. O tempora, o mores, etc. etc.
All of the WWW was better in 2008. Unironically. We've all been frog-boiled into this current hellscape.
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The internet peanut gallery will whine about literally everything under the sun. At a certain point I can see why some people would want to harness that energy for their advantage. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em and all that.
Elon Derangement Syndrome is real, like the Trump equivalent.
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The UI/UX is the main thing. I technically have an X-Twitter account that I rarely use, but loading plain HTML with a bit of JS beats loading a whole SPA experience just to read a post.
1:1 the same thing with Github
The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
Yeah, the UI is the real and only reason to use Nitter. It's a very similar situation with old reddit.
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Since a couple of weeks they force you to login to use old.reddit. My visits have dropped by about 95%
Use Redlib [1] or one of the other alternative Reddit frontends. [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
It can't suck all that much if you're not willing to give it up.
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I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.
No different than an uncurated Reddit profile. You’ll get bombarded with garbage until effort is placed into the curation.
It's an unpleasant experience. My main Reddit account doesn't "solve reddit" by any means - I often find myself thinking "man this site sucks, I should stop coming here," but the difference between that curated account and a fresh one is night and day.
Is there something like a balancer that redirects me to an instance that is not down?