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If you'll forgive the meta: As long as nitter.net was a thing I could tolerate twitter threads. All I had to do was change the address and then I could read th
by lolinder 2y ago
If you'll forgive the meta:
As long as nitter.net was a thing I could tolerate twitter threads. All I had to do was change the address and then I could read the thread.
Now that it's gone, I sincerely think it's time to ban twitter threads from HN. Here's all I have for this content:
* A headline that admittedly sounds terrible.
* An introduction, presumably to a series of tweets, explaining that this person earned a bounty from discord.
* A screenshot of the bounty.
Did Discord's CEO leak PII? I can't tell. This headline will get a lot of upvotes in its own right but doesn't reflect the content that I see, and I can't validate it because I don't have a twitter account.
We need to stop encouraging tweetstorms as a source of information.
- ranger_danger 2y agonitter.poast.org still works, and occasionally threadreaderapp.com
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoUse farside.link to find working instances. I refreshed three times and got three working instances: - https://nitter.poast.org/hackermondev/status/1816625357052588539 https://nitter.poast.org/hackermondev/status/181662535705258... - https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/hackermondev/status/1816625357052588539 https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/hackermondev/status/18166253570... - https://nitter.privacydev.net/hackermondev/status/1816625357052588539 https://nitter.privacydev.net/hackermondev/status/1816625357...
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- stonethrowaway 2y agoIf you’re for getting rid of this because it’s got a login wall, then let’s get rid of anything that has one as well. NYT, WSJ, the list goes on. Forget archive, just don’t allow that domain or any redirects to that domain.
- angoragoats 2y agoI’m in favor of getting rid of it because it’s a cesspool that’s a detriment to humanity, but even ignoring that, Twitter’s login wall is worse than most others. 1) There’s often much less content visible than on other paywalled sites. 2) The technical methods that services like nitter use to bypass the wall are being systematically patched/disabled by Twitter. 3) Reader mode doesn’t work to bypass the paywall, unlike some other sites.
- stonethrowaway 2y agoOn one hand I’m more fine with Twitter than the paywalls. Twitter I understand on moral grounds people not willing to sign up for an account. But I’m not paying a site to read thinly veiled, often racist and misandrist propaganda written by people far removed from journalistic integrity. (Pardon my rant). I’d rank the latter, for me personally, much worse.
- angoragoats 2y ago> But I’m not paying a site to read thinly veiled, often racist and misandrist propaganda written by people far removed from journalistic integrity. I can't tell if this sentence is referring to Twitter or other websites.
- rsynnott 2y agoThe login walls on NYT, WSJ et al are trivial to circumvent. I think HN does generally ban, at least implicitly/as a community thing (I'm not sure if it's an actual rule) things with hard login walls, like The Information. Twitter's somewhere in between, but particularly since the (more or less) demise of nitter, it's on the harder end.
- angoragoats 2y agoAgreed, and the people posting alternative still-working nitter instances are completely missing the point of your post.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoWe all fucking hated Twitter links here and called for them to be disallowed going back well before the acquisition. It has nothing to do with Musk or politics. (In case anyone thinks any Twitter hate is motivated by that.)
- rsynnott 2y agoI mean, they are considerably worse for this purpose now than previously, in that Twitter is now broken if you're not logged in.