Elon killed twitter. I don't think this extension helps restore the original twitter, so it is a bit pointless.
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#92very good. i find it annoying that whenever there is a new browser extension on HN, i ask for a "firefox version" to which the response is almost always kneejerk "eww no" or something to that end. So to see a firefox extension, that's refreshing. I hope you continue working on it and help improve the extension ecosystem
The same people bemoaning the war on general purpose computing or the surveillance state happily using Chrome has always been a truly bizarre disconnect I’ve never understood. Maybe it’s age? I used Firefox since firebird, and Phoenix, and Netscape, but saying “try Firefox” might feel like talking about an archaeological relic to a 28 year old who has never even seen Firefox running.
Are other chromium based browsers also problematic ?
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#93Don't use an extension for every redirect. Use https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/redirector to write redirects for all sites.
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#95Twitter used to have a mobile version which was almost usable compared to regular, what happened to that? Doesn't seem to be working or it's actively redirecting me back to regular.
The mobile version has just been a different flavour of the same React Native for Web app since New Twitter happened in 2019.
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#96- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
Don't look at the "For you" curated feed. If you only look at the "Following" feed and you follow sane, smart people, then your experience on X will be much better.
i have tried that multiple times. the algorithm is sneaky af. slowly and steadily it starts pushing ragebaiting posts to you even if you dont intend to. eventually one fine day you open your account and boom, we are back to fighting over inconsequential stuff
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#97- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
I never had an account past the point where Elon took over, but even twitter before (when I had an account there, once) had tons of issues. I remember twitter emailing me about "your tweets are too mean!" (in style). I don't think my criticism was mean at all - it was accurately to the point. This is where censorship kicks in, when some central authority attempts to regulate what people write and say.
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#98This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.
> How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life.
These are two very separate things. I hate X. That doesn't mean I hate the few remaining people on there who still post things I wish to see. It's an annoyingly good source of artwork. Many migrated/dualpost to Bluesky, but far from all.
For some similar real world example:s I hate (all?) the local grocery stores and other shops I buy food from. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop buying food from them. I'm not a fan of any of the local electronics shops, but sometimes they're the only choice if I want a local warranty, which I wouldn't get if I imported one. The actually good option in both of these cases simply doesn't exist in the first place, and doing nothing is rarely a desirable option.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the alternatives aren't much better. Bluesky now does the same BS where they demand an account if you just want to read replies to a tweet or whatever they call that at bluesky. And there is no bskycancel.com yet.
Huh, no it doesn't? Threads work fine when logged out on Bluesky (unless a post has been set by the author to logged-in users only, in which case it'll be hidden; this is fairly rare tho).
To add to that, this option only limits visibility on official Bluesky app/website. The data for this post is still available and third-party clients can make use of it. Hence what GP asks already exists: https://skyview.social/.
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#100Elon killed twitter. I don't think this extension helps restore the original twitter, so it is a bit pointless.
If that's more like what you're after, Control Panel for Twitter [1] has a bunch of features which undo some of the X-era changes (including continuing to use it via twitter.com, and using the old Messages interface instead of Chat)
It obviously can't fix the damage done to the product as a whole, nor the result of the peverse incentives introduced by boosted Tweets and Premium payouts, but it can lessen some of the personal effect of those (e.g. hiding replies from Premium accounts you don't follow) and keep you on a purely chronological timeline of nothing but what the people you follow are actually saying when X tries to make it otherwise (just last week they tried to make Following algorithmic by default)