https://twiiit.com/neilhimself/status/1567127793149820928

  • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Why does everyone on this site use a link to a tweet that takes three times as long to load rather than just sharing the actual twitter link

    • DeleteriousDanforth [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      twitter's site design has been rapidly devolving to the point where today scrolling anywhere replaces the content with a "PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAASE LOG IN 🥺" full-screen prompt, as metrics continue to drop it'll probably stop serving content altogether to people who don't want to log in before long

      nitter & derivatives are popup and ad-free and preserve deleted content to some extent

    • MendingBenjamin [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      FOSS folks wanting to use the open source front end that doesn’t include twitter’s tracking scripts

      • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        twitter’s tracking scripts

        Could you explain what this is for the technologically illiterate like me

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Little gremlins on websites that go onto your computer and watch what you're doing when you go to another website so they can attempt to sell you things

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Big data advertisers that work with multiple different websites track users across thousands of sites that they work with and then piece together their entire portfolio of online activity and sell it to companies that want to figure out how to convince you to buy shit you don't need.

          • hostilearchitecture [any]
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            edit-2
            2 years ago

            Just so everyone is aware of the capabilities here, I used to work for a nationwide self-storage company and if someone clicked on a Hulu ad to reserve a unit, we'd have their CV/resume, parsed through a web API by some company called "Sovren", and their whole profile fed through a machine learning model to determine how likely they were to actually move in and whether we needed to actually keep a unit empty until their supposed move-in date (because it was a relatively competitive industry, just empty rooms basically, there were no reservation fees).

        • mittens [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I had to disable it because nitter mirrors are often down, and I'm thinking of hosting a personal nitter instance that runs from a laptop