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Post by frankacter »

mechazawa wrote: post #565
frankacter wrote: post #506

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You still have access to local council posts, without logging in. You need to log in to view the follow up discussions(comments) a subtle but important distinction For example you can view the main post and included links in incognito not logged in, just not the "discussion" https://x.com/ManCityCouncil/status/2091903421917892994?s=20

That's assuming you have the link to their post. The profile page only shows the last 5 posts (assuming they are showing them in chronological order)

Seems X is balancing post visibility against bots, scraping, and some dark patterns that push people to sign in.

Showing everything is not viable under those competing goals. So they have settled on:

Show the post when someone has a direct link, but require login to see the discussion Show a limited number of recent posts on a profile, and require login for more

Raising that limit from 6 to 10 would not solve the real complaint: “I cannot see communication from my city.”

They already identify government official accounts. One simple option is to extend the visible timeline for those accounts only—six months or a year of posts—while still keeping discussions behind a login.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Post by lemaomao »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #246
NoboruWataya wrote: post #6

What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.

What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Yes, because influential, non-evil people who should know better just will not fucking leave. The vast majority of public-minded ML developers and researchers, including people who compete with xAI, being an obvious example. And because skilled, knowledgeable people who could create a replacement service just will not do so. At least…

> non-evil people

> ML developers and researchers

Brother in Christ, pick one.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Post by maipen »

encody wrote: post #605

I work out of cafes a lot, so I use a commercial VPN often. This means that I am unable to read Reddit. (Not to mention I have to pass two Cloudflare captchas on most other sites.) If I can't use Xcancel, then I won't be able to read Twitter on the rare occasion I want to. Strangely, as someone who is online a lot, I seem to be getting gradually cut off from other Internet users. HN is kind of the last survivor for m…

You are replying on HN with an account. Just make an account on X if there's content you want to see.

We got used to something being free and open, doesn't mean this is how it should be.

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Post by account42 »

trueno wrote: post #608
ymolodtsov wrote: post #569

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Final? If anything X seems to be more popular among users.

you're smokin crack, i don't know a single person who uses twitter anymore. literally not one. 5+ years ago? _everyone_ was on twitter.

That's your bubble. Organizations are pretty much still exclusively using X and so are many individuals.

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Post by throw0101a »

maelito wrote: post #616

Once upon a time I used Twitter's API to scan for tweets that were talking about a particular Wikipedia page. Doing semantic analysis, I did insert the tweets in the right place of the page. I did it as a student, using the free API. Twitter was the open, technically respected network with a great engineering blog. Now it's a political project to elect the extreme-right in Europe.

> Once upon a time I used Twitter's API

Once upon a time Twitter used to have RSS/Atom feeds for each account.

* https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-rss-depreciated-16973.h...

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Post by account42 »

Barrin92 wrote: post #407
loufe wrote: post #378

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why Threads makes your cut here, trading one walking negative externality of person in control for another is not really a sell to most folks.

it has Fediverse interop. Skepticism obviously is warranted towards the owners but you can at least interact with an open protocol or consume threads content from a Mastodon instance, say.

Facebook Messenger also used to have XMPP interop until they got the userbase they wanted and shut that down.
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