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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by wldcordeiro »

ghusto wrote: post #109
kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…

Reminds me of what Brasil did with Pix which of course the outside payment processors have been trying to undo.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by phforms »

arjie wrote: post #39
kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

The governments go where the people are. If they post on their own sites it’s the equivalent of “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’”. But government information should definitely be first source on their site with federation elsewhere.

Yeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform.

In a broader sense, I believe that every person who publishes on the internet should have a standard way to keep their profile data (accounts, posts, etc.) in a secure, user-owned vault that is independent of any company or institution and platforms should have to pull data from that place (in a restricted, user-controlled way) instead of from their own servers. Platforms should be exchangeable, profiles should be entirely user-owned. But of course, this is just a dream and hard to realise technically and economically (incentive-wise) with our current systems. Decentralised protocols are a step in this direction, but unfortunately still too technical/complicated for most people to really "own" or host their data themselves.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by jwilk »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #95
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #30

API works great, for now https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id... Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking

Correction: https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweets/[username]?uid=[...

What is the uid parameter for? It looks to me it's ignored.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by pibaker »

SXX wrote: post #14
thehamkercat wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

twitterwebviewer.com was registered in Hong Kong according to https://www.whois.com/whois/twitterwebviewer.com Looks fine, they don't care about the notices i guess

.com domain zone is managed by Verysign US company. They will just C&D them.

"Check our Wikipedia page for our latest domain. Next stop the Central African Republic!"

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by maxlin »

kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Blame boundless AI scraping. X would like very much to be more open.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by Meneth »

kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

There is a browser addon https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect to view Old Reddit without an account.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by Marsymars »

bsimpson wrote: post #103

Are there any Instagram equivalents that don't suck? People love to virtue signal by linking to Twitter proxies, but Instagram is still a walled garden that all sorts of useful information (event details, restaurant menus, etc.) is locked inside. I occasionally have luck with whatever the top Google results are, but they're all encrusted with dodgy ads.

Depends if you want an alternate front-end and you can self-host, or you're looking for a third party.

For the former, I generally look at what LibRedirect has as options: https://libredirect.manerakai.com/

Proxigram seems unmaintained, but kittygram seems to be actively developed: https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by tyre »

randyrand wrote: post #114

Is this referring to the new Twitter company that recently launched ( https://twitter.now )? If not, then this is just going to lead to confusion.

there is no chance that people would assume this is about a startup that's about to get nuked by copyright cease and desists

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ghusto wrote: post #109
kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…

Do you think if government accounts were on Signal, people would install it?
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