This has me thinking: given all of this, are public American officials therefore allowed to use Xitter? Presidential etc. speech is supposed to be archive-able, and placing it behind not only a sign-in, but also a $42069 (or whatever dumb figure Musk has dreamed up for API access) fee is problematic.
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#12This has me thinking: given all of this, are public American officials therefore allowed to use Xitter? Presidential etc. speech is supposed to be archive-able, and placing it behind not only a sign-in, but also a $42069 (or whatever dumb figure Musk has dreamed up for API access) fee is problematic.
Facebook is not easily archiveable either, is it? Somehow it seems like some questions (like about browsing without a login) are only being made about Twitter.
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#13Maybe time to end it? Twitter is no longer a well behaved service, and its only going to get worse.
X hasn't been well-behaved as long as Nitter has existed, it's crappiness is arguably the raison d'etre for Nitter.
Unofficial third-party apps, sites, etc will always be playing the cat-and-mouse game and will always be behind whatever change the first party service makes.
By default, Nitter has always been in a losing position in both maintenance and catching up in implementing the missing new features years before the Twitter acquisition.
This also isn't unique to X / Twitter.
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#14This has me thinking: given all of this, are public American officials therefore allowed to use Xitter? Presidential etc. speech is supposed to be archive-able, and placing it behind not only a sign-in, but also a $42069 (or whatever dumb figure Musk has dreamed up for API access) fee is problematic.
There are so many ways POTUS tweets can be archived irrespective of general Twitter/X policies.
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#15It's bad enough for your project to depend on a social media company, now imagine the company it's also run by an unhinged man-boy billionaire that's bored every 5min..
Alternative front-ends for big web sites are always a thankless job. At least everybody involved knows how these things end. ( I hope they know.. )
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#16This has me thinking: given all of this, are public American officials therefore allowed to use Xitter? Presidential etc. speech is supposed to be archive-able, and placing it behind not only a sign-in, but also a $42069 (or whatever dumb figure Musk has dreamed up for API access) fee is problematic.
Facebook is not easily archiveable either, is it? Somehow it seems like some questions (like about browsing without a login) are only being made about Twitter.
Facebook lets you export all your data iirc. I haven’t tried it but I’d assume that would work for that case
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#18I'm starting to wonder if the real value prop of Twitter, subconsciously recognized and agreed by users, is that some suckers are paying out of pocket for it, as opposed to the community having tractions and such and such valuable aspects.
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#19I finally removed processing of two Xitter-to-RSS (a once great function of nitter) feeds from my crontab, I know when I'm not welcomed.
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#20It's bad enough for your project to depend on a social media company, now imagine the company it's also run by an unhinged man-boy billionaire that's bored every 5min.. Alternative front-ends for big web sites are always a thankless job. At least everybody involved knows how these things end. ( I hope they know.. )
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