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brailsafe ◴[] No.42153153[source]
Is there more to the thread or just this one tweet/X thing? Response times notoriously suck on MacBooks, it would be nice to see that remedied, anecdotally it doesn't seem like that's happened yet.

Edit: Nevermind, same tweet seems to have been quoted across a bunch of different other news sites. Apparently Blur Busters claims an improvement, I'll try it out and see how it is in some other contexts.

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anonym29 ◴[] No.42153226[source]
If you're not logged in to Xitter, navigating to a Xeet allows you to view the Xeet, but not the Xomments. Fortunately, there are open-source, self-hostable, privacy-preserving front-ends for Xitter, such as Nitter.

If setting it up yourself is too much work, you can use other public instances. One such instance is called xcancel. Load the Xeet as normal, then simply append "cancel" to the domain name before the period in your URL bar and hit enter :)

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1. solarkraft ◴[] No.42169871[source]
In the context of a boycott, using/promoting Nitter is at best neutral - you’re not directly engaging with the most hostile parts of the site, but still engaging with it and making it easier for others to do so, unnecessarily promoting the idea of X being a good platform to post on.

I suggest not making any effort to use the site - rather just ask people to primarily share content from X by copying rather than linking. This removes the need to interact with it both for yourself and (more importantly) for others.

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2. brailsafe ◴[] No.42170744[source]
> In the context of a boycott, using/promoting Nitter is at best neutral

I don't think that context was established, at least not in my comment, but I do agree with your second suggestion.

3. anonym29 ◴[] No.42247761[source]
To be clear, I don't mean to boycott the site entirely. There is a lot of good content from good people mixed in with the bad.

You cannot judge an entire cohort of people by what the worst among them do. Assuming all Xitter users are evil just because there are some genuinely evil Xitter users is no different from a bigot assuming all <insert group here> are <insert bad property here> just because there are some members of that group that genuinely are <insert bad property here>. Being exclusionary and prejudiced against all in response to the actions of a few isn't morally justified just because your tribe agrees that the entire cohort of people you're excluding are bad.

The issue I take with it is that the site is effectively paywalled, just one where you pay with your privacy and personal data by signing up for an account. Without an account, Xitter will not show Xomments on a Xeet, nor will it even allow you to view Xeets in chronological order.