Twitter

[one-armed dwarf]

iirc, you can press 'login' and press the 'x' to stop that and the prompt fucks off

 

tho George Hotz made a big deal about removing that specific login modal, looks like the dude didn't do a good job of that lol

 

edit maybe this works 

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598205376909942788.html

 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1594724708309553152.html

[DisturbedSwan]

Holy shit, I never knew you could do that lol, I feel like an idiot.

[DisturbedSwan]

I've switched over to Threads now after sacking off Mastodon and Hive.

 

https://www.threads.net/@disturbed_swan

[HandsomeDead]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg41n533zno.amp

 

Musk's Twitter is now banned in Brazil.  This happened due to some disinformation accusations.  You can call it a potentially bad slippery slope but it is rife with disinformation so they do need their feet held to the fire.

[one-armed dwarf]

I've reported a few posts on there and every time I get an email back it says something like 'our automated systems found no issue with this, but thx anyway'. One of those posts I reported was an image of Hitler saying that we should apologise to him. 

 

Like yeah at a certain point if you aren't going to clean up your act what the fuck else is going to happen

 

That said the part here where they talk about imposing huge fines on people if they access twitter via a VPN and banning VPNs in general is really stupid. You cannot ban VPNs in our globalised economy when they're a requirement for certain jobs, it's the same tech illiteracy that had Cameron's government looking at ways to make encryption basically useless

[HandsomeDead]

Yeah, it's frustrating how common these sledgehammer to crack a nut laws around the internet happen.

 

Twitter is going to take a hit in SNK posts now.

[Maryokutai]

Saw the politics thread, didn't want to derail too much, but how are people feeling about Xcancel?

https://xcancel.com/

 

I haven't looked into it too much but from I understand it allows you to see and share posts from twitter without giving the page any traffic. I'm not really using twitter, but if this was allowed here maybe it'd be an alternative for maf or someone else.

[one-armed dwarf]

I was going to ask about that as well but I'm not sure how it works, if it takes one visit to the site, generates and caches the content just once rather than triggering x.com requests everytime someone sees the embed.

 

I think for gaming news at least, it's easy enough to get stuff off blusky and that's what I try to do. Think I linked x.com for something once recently but can't remember what

 

On another note, x.com is probably becoming like 4chan in that clicking a link might find you inadvertently scroll into something illegal, even if the original content is totally benign, such is how derailed from its original purchase twitter is now

[DANGERMAN]

I know people who use Xcancel, but it's usually just to recover deleted tweets from people after a controversy.  Personally I have no issue with that being used, I'm sure there's a case to be made that it's still giving air to Twitter, but it's better than them getting views and tracking