They might be motivated by political views, fact checking, etc, but the subreddits I’ve seen discussing it (baseball, Iowa) are focusing on the fact that you need an account to see anything now. Screenshots from X would still be permitted; just not direct links due to the degree of interaction with the site required to view the material.
It’s sound reasoning, in my opinion. X either links you to an actual source or is a short post easily captured in a screenshot.
It’s not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.
They might be motivated by political views, fact checking, etc, but the subreddits I’ve seen discussing it (baseball, Iowa) are focusing on the fact that you need an account to see anything now. Screenshots from X would still be permitted; just not direct links due to the degree of interaction with the site required to view the material.
It’s sound reasoning, in my opinion. X either links you to an actual source or is a short post easily captured in a screenshot.
r/republican is melting down over the removal/no more Twitter links thing
Really, what don’t those people melt down over. They’re reactionaries, they by essence have to melt down over everything.
It’s not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.
Didn’t nitter shut down like 2 years ago or something
It very nearly did, but there’s, like, 2 working instances with heavy ratelimits.
Was it as long ago as that? xcancel.com still works, if you can’t live without your fix of Baalbuddy.
I stopped using twitter way longer than that, tbh I’m basically gone from most social media
Twitter used to be more interesting and I talked with a lot of people. Nowadays it’s pretty devoid