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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by beanjuiceII »

neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

you need a mental check if you think there are not decent people who use and enjoy X

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by someothherguyy »

neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by phlakaton »

bayesnet wrote: post #174
wolvoleo wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i can find a way to take it from them anyway" I agree with that though. It's better to circumvent than to submit and do what you're told. The same way piracy keeps streaming services somewhat honest, I'm s…

The piracy thing is a bit backwards I think. Piracy is a consequence of subscription price so higher prices induce more piracy. The only way piracy doesn’t exist is if all content is free to begin with

And the reason that piracy doesn't exist in that case is because the creators have all had to go out of business. ;-)

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by rasz »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #138
prophesi wrote: post #134

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I remember the days that Bibliogram worked for Instagram. They've given up. A decade ago I could have an RSS feed for what my friends posted, besides the toxic short-form content of IG reels that everyone is now obsessed with post Meta acquisition and their battle to compete with Tiktok.

Instagram is actively hostile to good ui. They constantly go out of their way to break extensions that add a video scrubber.

Good UI makes it easier to be selective. social media owners dont want you to be selective, they are selling you to advertisers and influencers after all.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by throw-the-towel »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #131
noduerme wrote: post #128

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To be fair, it's possible that he changed, rather than that everyone who now hates him did.

Many people regard Elon as a hero or villain. I regard him as a tragedy: A great entrepreneur who wrecked his sanity due to drugs, genetics, and/or overwork.

What if insanity is required to be a great entrepreneur?

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by customguy »

beanjuiceII wrote: post #181
neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

you need a mental check if you think there are not decent people who use and enjoy X

If THEY would use themselves as excuse for the rest, like you do with them, I wouldn't consider them decent people. There are decent people in the US military and police force, there may be even a stray decent ICE agent. I bet you there's decent people getting sent into the meat grinder by Putin, too. But if any of them were adamant about not wanting to hear about all sorts of fuckery of what they are part of or any overarching context, because they are oh so decent, they're not decent, they're just spineless. It's subjective anyway, and bitching about it never ever helps the verdict.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by aftbit »

bayesnet wrote: post #174
wolvoleo wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i can find a way to take it from them anyway" I agree with that though. It's better to circumvent than to submit and do what you're told. The same way piracy keeps streaming services somewhat honest, I'm s…

The piracy thing is a bit backwards I think. Piracy is a consequence of subscription price so higher prices induce more piracy. The only way piracy doesn’t exist is if all content is free to begin with

There's subscription cost, then there's other factors, like DRM, usability, single source, etc. If you want to find the latest media, you can either hunt for it on one among several subscription services or you can find it on any of the big torrent sites. Once you torrent it, you can watch it on any or every device, without internet, forever.

If first party media companies sold one-off DRM free downloads of movies and TV shows for a reasonable price (not even that cheap, just not requiring bundling with other content you don't want to see), I bet that'd have more of an impact on piracy rates than lowering subscription prices by 10% or whatever.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by lern_too_spel »

someothherguyy wrote: post #182
neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

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Those are certainly some words to describe people who share on sites that require readers to log in when there are many alternatives that don't.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by yde_java »

bitwize wrote: post #178
eudamoniac wrote: post #164

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This all already happened, it's called bluesky, and the "decent" (people who agree with you on politics) people had their exodus already

You mean the people who hate Nazis? Yes, they're not on X.

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