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I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point

by parl_match 25d ago

solarkraft 25d ago
I don’t even open twitter/x links anymore because the page is so unusable.
- shevy-java 25d ago
  Same here. There is always the "log in" nagging pop-up. But I will never log in again to the right-arm-gesture guy, so this is just time wasted for me. We could need some decentralized way to share "tweets" though. Not linked to greedy billionaires.
  - flawn 25d ago
    If you want to share tweets from X, there is exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283
  - 1over137 25d ago
    fb and insta have the same annoying login screens too. seems like most of the web does these days.
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- stymaar 25d ago
  I made the experiment some times ago: it's faster to edit the link, replace x.com with nitter.net and load the content from there, than wait until the original page load. The time difference isn't meaningful (it's less than a second), but the fact that a website loses against a manual redirection to another front end is still a spectacular proof of incompetence.
  - TRiG_Ireland 24d ago
    I found a Firefox plugin which does an automatic redirect to XCancel.
- TFNA 25d ago
  I wonder if it is by design. On Nitter, which is fast-loading and streamlined, it is trivial to ctrl-click on a bunch of commenter accounts and readily see they are bots (photo from This Person Does Not Exist, unrealistically single-issue posting, etc.). On X where things move slow as treacle, it is harder for the average person to figure that out.
Cthulhu_ 25d ago
I never went (just don't like it), but for a long time it was a primary source for a lot of important things so one kinda gets exposed to it anyway indirectly and / or through embeds. But that's the filtered version, anyway.
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chanux 25d ago
Recently found textlog.cc here on HN. At times it felt (the content especially) like the early days of twitter.

I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point

solarkraft 25d ago

I don’t even open twitter/x links anymore because the page is so unusable.

shevy-java 25d ago
Same here. There is always the "log in" nagging pop-up. But I will never log in again to the right-arm-gesture guy, so this is just time wasted for me. We could need some decentralized way to share "tweets" though. Not linked to greedy billionaires.
- flawn 25d ago
  If you want to share tweets from X, there is exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283
- 1over137 25d ago
  fb and insta have the same annoying login screens too. seems like most of the web does these days.
- deleted 25d ago
  [deleted]
stymaar 25d ago
I made the experiment some times ago: it's faster to edit the link, replace x.com with nitter.net and load the content from there, than wait until the original page load. The time difference isn't meaningful (it's less than a second), but the fact that a website loses against a manual redirection to another front end is still a spectacular proof of incompetence.
- TRiG_Ireland 24d ago
  I found a Firefox plugin which does an automatic redirect to XCancel.
TFNA 25d ago
I wonder if it is by design. On Nitter, which is fast-loading and streamlined, it is trivial to ctrl-click on a bunch of commenter accounts and readily see they are bots (photo from This Person Does Not Exist, unrealistically single-issue posting, etc.). On X where things move slow as treacle, it is harder for the average person to figure that out.

Cthulhu_ 25d ago

I never went (just don't like it), but for a long time it was a primary source for a lot of important things so one kinda gets exposed to it anyway indirectly and / or through embeds. But that's the filtered version, anyway.

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chanux 25d ago

Recently found textlog.cc here on HN. At times it felt (the content especially) like the early days of twitter.