I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too.<p>But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app instead of the site). Even Bluesky has this problem!<p>Sometimes this information is really important! And I even if I did have an account I may not have access to log in on every device (or even want to).<p>It’s absurd that social media can become this like critical communications platform for severe weather alerts or business hours or anything but the sites hosting it are completely hostile to allowing you to see it.<p>Sites like this are a bandaid on a gangrenous foot. Thanks for allowing me to see links from twitter but it isn’t a sustainable solution clearly.
The governments go where the people are. If they post on their own sites it’s the equivalent of “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’”.<p>But government information should definitely be first source on their site with federation elsewhere.
Increasingly access is hidden behind mobile apps too, which in turn requires succumbing to app stores and handing over the keys to 2 giant US companies. For slopware and social media, fine. Some would even argue it is a blessing in disguise. However on the government level it is totally unacceptable. E.g. why should anyone and especially non US citizens accept the Google/Apple TOS in order to file their taxes, access their health recds or schedule a gov appointment?
totally agree, businesses that only have Facebook or Instagram are basically hidden from me. I can not see their opening hours, nor the menue, if it is a restaurant. I understand why the businesses use facebook, its easy, but its also a bit sad.
>suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted<p>To some decision-makers their idea of "disruption" is limited to enshittification more than anything else.
Listen I know this comment is off topic, flag this if you want but I think it’s an important discussion<p>Speaking of twitter, are there any posts here about the ycombinator discourse?<p>Given a high level member of ycombinator blocked the chairman of the FTC after an argument over immigration, I foresee issues in the future.
It would be nice if URL schema was compatibile with X. In case of Nitter, I could’ve just replaced x.com with xcancel.com with a web extension and URL still works.
it's brave to look at other companies receiving cease and desist notices and treat it as a market opening
twitterwebviewer.com was registered in Hong Kong<p>according to <a href="https://www.whois.com/whois/twitterwebviewer.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.whois.com/whois/twitterwebviewer.com</a><p>Looks fine, they don't care about the notices i guess
I guess my brain has been cooked by internet libertarianism but what's the basis of a C&D for proxying a website?<p>Is the legal basis just copyright of the contents?
Bigger "guns" diplomacy. They don't need any legal basis for a C&D. Just depends on whether you have enough money to fight it in court.
i dont know the legal basis used, or the validity. i just know that i wouldnt want to have to spend the time or money fighting twitter over it
API works great, for now<p><a href="https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]" rel="nofollow">https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]</a><p><a href="https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id]" rel="nofollow">https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id...</a><p>Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking
Hmm, on the one hand Elon begs for new users with animated ads on the x.com front page, on the other hand one of his (likely) alt accounts claims that "Every $1 [of advertising on X] spent delivered an average return of $5.42":<p><a href="https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092490213121761787" rel="nofollow">https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092490213121761787</a><p>I <i>am</i> kind of addicted to studying propaganda and reading about baseball stadiums on the moon to drive up the SpaceX stock price. For this I need the Twitter gateways.
Prepping for another C&D I see. The only way something like this can survive is through Tor or similar, fully anonymous and decentralized.
Show HN some months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513823">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513823</a>
The site is very fast even though it should be overloaded now. Registered in Hong Kong (good), handled by Cloudflare and claims to be in California:<p><a href="https://github.com/peters-lab/twitter-viewer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/peters-lab/twitter-viewer</a><p>Repo is fake, only a README and a LICENSE. I guess we'll take what we can get now.
We need this for Linkdin too!
The search is somehow faster than twitter's own search.
It does not work for me like xcancel did
Related:<p><i>Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283</a>
To this day I am still calling the website Twitter and access it every single time typing twitter.com. That rename was so dumb. So, I really love the name
whackamole is the only way for now, unfortunately.
It's disappointing that this is even necessary given earlier promises of opening up the Twitter algorithm.
paypal should have never ever given back Musk the x domain<p>and ICANN should have nuked it long ago<p>but all that aside, wtf is anyone still on it<p>Musk is a mass murderer<p>apparently the nazis would still be in power today if they just had a web service people were too freaking lazy and addicted to ever quit<p>and Tesla "FSD" is still trying to murder passengers a decade later but that's also definitely a choice
I ignored Twitter before Musk bought it and oddly I still have no problem ignoring it.<p>It doesn't even have good cat pictures.
I built dailycat.app and it has good cat pictures!
Literally every time I decide to stop ignoring X, I log in and am greeted with overt racism and religious hatred. Always a good reminder to just ignore that cesspit.<p>I guess other people have more tolerance than I do for the constant stream of hatred that floats to the top of the algorithm like scum over there.