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X will keep playing games to optimize their user count. I suggest not falling for these games. I have already Xed out X from my life.

paulnpace 2y ago
I thought this the point of nitter?
moralestapia 2y ago
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- mikeyouse 2y ago
  According to Musk, we're going to have full self driving cars in negative 8 years so maybe look to independent parties when assessing claims that directly impact the wealth of the people making them.
  - deleted 2y ago
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- srid 2y ago
  Same. They do need to fix the For You feed though. Lots of engagement farming and outrage-y content, despite vehement muting.
yborg 2y ago
Most of the HN crowd is the long tail. The vast majority will continue to use whatever mass surveillance/monetization platform their friends use and so news outlets, government bodies, etc. will continue to post on that platform. You can either throw in the towel and join the masses or continue to use technical means of circumvention to access information there when necessary.
- ffsm8 2y ago
  Very, very few average people actually use Twitter/X It's significants was always massively overstated in tech circles and various echo chambers.
  - TeMPOraL 2y ago
    With journalism having years ago devolved to quoting Twitter takes on air and in print, that is a strange thesis to make.
    - ffsm8 2y ago
      Journalism was already dying when Twitter came to market, that makes your argument extremely weak. All news organizations have been hemorrhaging value since the Internet went mainstream. But besides that: today's journalists don't chase news, they chase gossip. And Twitter does indeed provide them with plenty of that. Very few average people are interested in such information however, even if various groups are hyper focused on it. It's still a gigantic group of people though, even if it's a tiny minority from the perspective of society
      - TeMPOraL 2y ago
        I strongly disagree. > Very few average people are interested in such information, even if various groups are hyper focused on it. On the contrary, I find it that very few average people are interested in anything but gossip. Gossip is the distilled form of information, stripped free of complex ideas and difficult topics, refined to serve the single purpose most people care about: being a social object. That is, giving people something to talk about with other people. To bond over it, or argue over it - doesn't matter. For most people, the only thing that matters is relationships with other people - truth, or objectivity, or reality be damned. People who care about accuracy of their news either actually need it for their jobs, or are just nerds. Which is what I personally prefer to be, but that's still a small minority.
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paulnpace 2y ago

I thought this the point of nitter?

moralestapia 2y ago

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mikeyouse 2y ago
According to Musk, we're going to have full self driving cars in negative 8 years so maybe look to independent parties when assessing claims that directly impact the wealth of the people making them.
- deleted 2y ago
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srid 2y ago
Same. They do need to fix the For You feed though. Lots of engagement farming and outrage-y content, despite vehement muting.

yborg 2y ago

Most of the HN crowd is the long tail. The vast majority will continue to use whatever mass surveillance/monetization platform their friends use and so news outlets, government bodies, etc. will continue to post on that platform. You can either throw in the towel and join the masses or continue to use technical means of circumvention to access information there when necessary.

ffsm8 2y ago
Very, very few average people actually use Twitter/X It's significants was always massively overstated in tech circles and various echo chambers.
- TeMPOraL 2y ago
  With journalism having years ago devolved to quoting Twitter takes on air and in print, that is a strange thesis to make.
  - ffsm8 2y ago
    Journalism was already dying when Twitter came to market, that makes your argument extremely weak. All news organizations have been hemorrhaging value since the Internet went mainstream. But besides that: today's journalists don't chase news, they chase gossip. And Twitter does indeed provide them with plenty of that. Very few average people are interested in such information however, even if various groups are hyper focused on it. It's still a gigantic group of people though, even if it's a tiny minority from the perspective of society
    - TeMPOraL 2y ago
      I strongly disagree. > Very few average people are interested in such information, even if various groups are hyper focused on it. On the contrary, I find it that very few average people are interested in anything but gossip. Gossip is the distilled form of information, stripped free of complex ideas and difficult topics, refined to serve the single purpose most people care about: being a social object. That is, giving people something to talk about with other people. To bond over it, or argue over it - doesn't matter. For most people, the only thing that matters is relationships with other people - truth, or objectivity, or reality be damned. People who care about accuracy of their news either actually need it for their jobs, or are just nerds. Which is what I personally prefer to be, but that's still a small minority.
      - 2y ago