I wish this had the effect of politicians no longer being allowed to use Twitter in order to express any type of public opinions.
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Yes this. Life is getting progressively better now Twitter, Reddit and Apple pissed me off. I’ve got more time, money and a healthier outlook on life. Now if only I could shake HN.
The noprocrast option in the user settings can help. You can set minaway to a much longer time to avoid checking in constantly.
I tried it, but it didn't make it any easier. I just shifted devices and back on the front page. If that works for you, then that's cool!
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#303Alternative frontends like Nitter[1] should hopefully continue to work. They could always scrape as an authenticated user if that becomes necessary. [1] https://nitter.net/
All Instagram frontends are broken now, so if Twitter goes through with the change Nitter's days are numbered.
yeah I'm also just waiting for nitter to break. but frankly by now I'm just there to follow @mntmn and the comments in their threads.
Deleting the account was actually what helped me break my twitter habit; without an account the UI is so annoying it works as an effective dopamine inhibitor.
anyhow, @mntmn is also on mastodon and MNT Research also run a cosy Discourse instance, so I'm welcoming this as twitter taking their place next to the facebooks, tumblrs amd myspaces in the ranks of self-obsoleted social media.
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Eh maybe. The problem is that IMO there aren’t any obvious alternatives to Reddit. I remember when Digg committed suicide with a pretty bad redesign and most disgruntled users moved to Reddit. I’ve been pretty annoyed with the changes Reddit has implemented in the past couple of years, but I haven’t found another place to go (that’s not necessarily a bad thing). HN is the closest alternative but the scope of topics w…
The sooner reddit dies the better. What a toxic and manipulated hellhole it has become.
For larger subs, yeah. For smaller, specialised topical subs, I will defend them until Reddit forces a similar requirement as Twitter here.
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#305When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.
Reddit seems perfectly usable as an unauthenticated user. I know they present a more spammy version to users landing from google, but nothing is blocked behind more than a click or two. I think that's just good business sense because you want to monetize your firehose of less engaged users and coddle the ones that are more engaged and producing content.
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#306Everyone is afraid of what the social media giants will do next. Everyone prays every day "Please let them keep me on their platform". How can we get rid of this fear and achieve peace of mind?
Unfortunately, even a federated systen like Mastodon is not a solution to this. The url of a Tweet/Toot is still domain/user/postid. If the domain owner f*cks you over, you are simply helpless.
Maybe a content addressable social media software is needed?
Maybe something can be build with blockchain tech so that it simply is not possible to remove a post as it would break the whole chain?
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#308Wouldn’t this prevent US politicians and government agencies from using Twitter? I believe there is some standard about official communications being freely available.
Politicians being banned from Twitter would be great for our political process.
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My Reddit habit has been all but replaced with private Slacks and Discords these days. Either hobby / interest groups, or an "alumni Slack" full of old work friends from a company I worked at a long time. I think that's the future, for geeks and nerds anyway. Small private forums, where you can actually have real discussions without getting drowned in memes and downvotes. For the masses, I think the cement is pretty…
> Slacks and Discords I find these terrible for any kind of information discovery. I hate that so many communities are using them as an alternative to a subreddit or focused forum. Hell most "modern" forum software is horrific as well.
And we are back to a "decentralised" web, although it's only decentralised between a few servers in Discord's and Slack's basements.