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> far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined What do you learn from 280 characters at a time?
The 280 character limit was raised to 4,000 in February of 2023.
Only for people who pay.
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#112X/Twitter is a gross network. It’s like posting links to 4chan.
It's just like the fediverse, what you see depends on where you hang out around. I can easily find extremely bad corners of the fediverse but again, that's not representative
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined What do you learn from 280 characters at a time?
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"Yeah, the best content is on twitter, you have everything from links to Medium to links to personal websites, sometimes there's even screenshots of them!"
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#114Sadly, important content is sometimes still posted (only) in the form of Twitter threads.
Short of signing up for an account, is there currently a reasonable way of reading those?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting because the content I get on X is far, far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined. It’s the only place you can follow subject matter experts and get their real time thoughts. I think people on HN just don’t know how to use Twitter? If you want to use it effectively, you have to utilize lists. Curate your own lists or find someone you respect and follow their lists. If someone is posting things…
Why is this reply getting downvoted?
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#116This is disappointing because often times people link to threads on Twitter but if you’re lucky enough to not get a login wall, the full thread wont be visible without logging in. (Which I’m not going to do) I really wish people would just stop linking me to twitter (or better yet, stop using it altogether).
Why not make an account if you want to read it?
I can happily just not read the tweet. There’s no FOMO if the pool of worthwhile posts is getting smaller, not larger
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#117Would a self-hosted private instance of Nitter be an option to avoid rate limits, or are Twitter accounts being penalized for using any third-party API client?
You could, but you'd have to make your own personal twitter account. At that point you're using Twitter with extra steps.
RSS!
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is this reply getting downvoted?
I'm guessing 1) HN readers don't like Elon Musk (I don't like him either) so they don't like Twitter 2) I implied HN readers are doing something wrong (as any other human being, they don't like being told that) 3) I (slightly) insulted the intelligence of HN readers by saying they didn't know how to use Twitter and they really don't like that I've just gotten downvotes and no one's responded with any actual rebuttals…
I used to use Twitter and I simply disagree with it being more useful than HN. I suppose it depends on the focus of content you want to learn or read about
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#119Would a self-hosted private instance of Nitter be an option to avoid rate limits, or are Twitter accounts being penalized for using any third-party API client?
You could, but you'd have to make your own personal twitter account. At that point you're using Twitter with extra steps.
For those who need timely access to information that is only available on Twitter, the account is unavoidable.
The benefit of extra steps is a client under user control, e.g. filtering, RSS, better threading and more.
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#120On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X. Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Redd…
While it is unmaintained now due to the API changes, Libreddit (reddit frontend) is still working for me. Granted, I self-host it, and I'm the only user so I never hit the rate limit, but no issues at all, save for some of the changes reddit has made (namely the new share links)
Interesting, I thought they completely disabled the APIs