I also like to redirect ^https?://instagram.com/(.*) to https://imginn.com/$1 But I never trust extensions, I do it manually.
How do you do it manually?
Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're really selling me on bluesky lol. I have no time for toxic masculinity and conservatism. Though I tend to hang out at fediverse instances that are more lgbt specific and not that political, I'm just sick of politics, I don't believe in democracy anymore since my own country went 30% to the extreme right party. I just hang out with like-minded people and avoid everyone else.
Isn't the concept of 'lgbt' (etc.) inherently political? I never come across the acronym without it being bandied around in a political context. Also, being with 'like-minded people' is, again, political just as intentionally trying to interact with people outside your personal bubble. That's what makes it so hard to 'keep out politics' since just about everything has been made political: from what you eat to what yo…
> Isn't the concept of 'lgbt' (etc.) inherently political?
I mean in the sense that literally everything is political, yes, I suppose so. Certainly if you ask, say, a Marxist, then yes. But in that sense, so is, say, a chocolate bar.
In the more narrow everyday sense of the word, though, nope, my mere existence isn't a political matter.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't the concept of 'lgbt' (etc.) inherently political? I never come across the acronym without it being bandied around in a political context. Also, being with 'like-minded people' is, again, political just as intentionally trying to interact with people outside your personal bubble. That's what makes it so hard to 'keep out politics' since just about everything has been made political: from what you eat to what yo…
> Isn't the concept of 'lgbt' (etc.) inherently political? I mean in the sense that literally everything is political, yes, I suppose so. Certainly if you ask, say, a Marxist, then yes. But in that sense, so is, say, a chocolate bar. In the more narrow everyday sense of the word, though, nope, my mere existence isn't a political matter.
> In the more narrow everyday sense of the word, though, nope, my mere existence isn't a political matter.
It isn't, but neither is your existence 'lgbt' since you are not defined solely by your sexual orientation. You may have been gathered - by whom? - under this moniker but had nobody ever thought to create an identity category related to sexual orientation your existence would not have been changed in any way. It is the fact that one of your characteristics has been turned into a 'membership card' of a specific identity which makes 'lgbt' political.
I'm left-handed and as far as I know - ... - there is no identity category related to handedness (yet). If one were to be dreamt up by someone and that person decided I would be counted in as a member of this identity group and be represented by some self-appointed spokesperson my handedness would have been politicised. It would not make a whit of difference as far as my 'existence' were concerned, I'm left-handed with our without a related identity group.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
They turned what was supposed to be a refuge from the 'hate' and 'toxic ${subject}' of Musk-owned X into a hive of 'hate' and 'toxic ${subject}', the only difference being that on BS the 'hate' and 'toxicity' is aimed at X, Musk, Trump and those who dare to trespass outside of the desired narrative of the day. BS is for the 'left' what e.g. Gab is for the 'right': an outpost for the looney fringe. On both Gab as well…
I'm still not understanding you.
If you're a happy participant of BS I wish you good luck. If you're not using the site/service yet but plan to do so I advice you to have a good look around the place before you commit too much time and effort in it.
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#175I used to have an extension per each domain then I've decided to publish regurlator https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/regurlator/jfgfmidm... ... this case would be like `^https:\/\/(?:x|twitter)\.com\/(.+)?$` ` https://xcancel.com/$1 ` so you have a single extension with as many rules as you like and you can download/share/restore rules with ease (it's just a JSON file).
Was just looking for a more general extension like this, thanks! Just a small nitpick / feature request: I try not to install extensions that require "Read and change all your data on all websites" permission, so may I ask you to change it to something less general, such as requiring access to specific websites once the corresponding new URL is added to a white list? I saw some Chrome extensions doing this as of late…
+1, but it's not a small nitpick, principle of least privilege should be applied here.
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#176I deleted my Twitter right before Elon bought it. Aside from political or social reasons, X is a terrible platform. More often than not, I get a blank page, something didn't load. If I get content, it's (randomly) behind a registration-wall. Or it shows confusing cookie banners that half the time don't even work. (Dev console full of js errors) So I don't even bother anymore. This service is technically so fragile an…
I think you're hitting all the various bot walls. They sometimes deliberately break and show stale content so bots and scrapers don't know they're blocked. If you're logged in everything just works.
> If you're logged in everything just works.
That's my point. That's the problem I am addressing.
You present that as a solution. I presented it as a problem.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Isn't the concept of 'lgbt' (etc.) inherently political? I mean in the sense that literally everything is political, yes, I suppose so. Certainly if you ask, say, a Marxist, then yes. But in that sense, so is, say, a chocolate bar. In the more narrow everyday sense of the word, though, nope, my mere existence isn't a political matter.
> In the more narrow everyday sense of the word, though, nope, my mere existence isn't a political matter. It isn't, but neither is your existence 'lgbt' since you are not defined solely by your sexual orientation. You may have been gathered - by whom? - under this moniker but had nobody ever thought to create an identity category related to sexual orientation your existence would not have been changed in any way. It…
Okay, so on _your_ basis (that it is an identity), being, say, a bird-watcher, or a nerd, or from a rural area, or all sorts of other things, can be, and often is, treated as an identity, and is thus political.
(Ditto for left-handed people to some extent; less of a thing these days, but there _was_ a time they were kinda treated as an outgroup in many places.)
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In the more narrow everyday sense of the word, though, nope, my mere existence isn't a political matter. It isn't, but neither is your existence 'lgbt' since you are not defined solely by your sexual orientation. You may have been gathered - by whom? - under this moniker but had nobody ever thought to create an identity category related to sexual orientation your existence would not have been changed in any way. It…
Okay, so on _your_ basis (that it is an identity), being, say, a bird-watcher, or a nerd, or from a rural area, or all sorts of other things, can be, and often is, treated as an identity, and is thus political. (Ditto for left-handed people to some extent; less of a thing these days, but there _was_ a time they were kinda treated as an outgroup in many places.)
Only if people start talking about the 'bird-watching' community instead of individual bird watchers and people who happen to like watching birds begin to talk about themselves in that way: as a member of the bird-watching community I .... The same for the other examples: nerds, 'farmers', etc. In essence it comes down to this: when people start being identified and as a result start identifying themselves by some specific characteristic - bird-watcher, nerd, etc - it starts becoming political. Some of these examples - especially the nerdy one - won't come to much but it wouldn't surprise you to read about an organised group of bird-watchers from the bird-watching community staking out a protest in front of some planned building site where a small patch of forest is to be razed to the ground to make place for some housing project. The same is true for the rural example, especially those who actually derive their living from 'rural activities' - farmers and those dependent on them for their livelihood have been active as political groups for a very long time.
Here's one of the many ways the Open University answers the question on what politics is:
Among the broadest ways of defining politics is to understand it as a ‘social activity’ – an activity we engage in together with others, or one through which we engage others. Politics, in this sense, is ‘always a dialogue, and never a monologue’ (Heywood, 2013, p. 1). A similarly broad (or perhaps even broader) definition is offered by Arendt (2005), who argues that politics does not have an ‘essence’ – it does not have an intrinsic nature, or an indispensable element according to which we can definitively, and in all circumstances, identify something as political. Thus, there are no quintessentially political acts, subjects or places. Politics, rather, is the world that emerges between us – the world that emerges through our interactions with each other, or through the ways that our individual actions and perspectives are aggregated into collectivities. [1]
[1] https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/what-pol...
Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
#179This is the extension I use: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/ Not only do I translate x.com -> xcancel.com, but - cnn.com -> text.cnn.com - youtube.com -> inv.nadeko.net - instagram.com -> imginn.com And more. Regular expressions allow translations of paths for the redirection, so it does not just happen at the top level.
Thanks for improving my web experience.