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Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com

There were no "issues"; everything was working completely fine. This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.

I saw a recommendation to use Firefox's container extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers, but it's disabled in private browsing windows, and I always use private browsing windows.

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[–] [email protected] 416 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Stop using twitter for f*cks sake

[–] [email protected] 170 points 6 months ago (21 children)

This is the internet; you can say “fuck” here.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Sir this is a Wendys, go rant somewhere else for fucks sake

[–] TheLowestStone 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Excuse me, I'm going to have to ask you not to curse here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

this is a Christian Minecraft server

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] SonnyVabitch 2 points 6 months ago

The fuck you are

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I always thought it was "fuck's sake".

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[–] unreasonabro 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Rolando 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] superduperpirate 2 points 6 months ago

“Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-it”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
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[–] TrickDacy 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It really baffles me how often I still see it talked about. Especially on Lemmy. I never liked it myself but now the musk owns it, I would've assumed there wouldn't be much controversy here: it's dead and gone, move on, people.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Problem is it isn’t gone and it’s still helping foment huge political/social issues in the US. It impacts us whether we want it to or not.

Doesn’t mean I use it. I don’t. But it negatively impacts my life all the same.

[–] Broken_Monitor 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes politics, the thing that can be discussed in 140 characters or less. Twitter is definitely the prime place for this discourse.

I get what you’re saying, I really do, I just think its super fucked up that our politicians have collectively decided this is THE place to engage people when there is no political topic that could possibly be discussed properly this way. I’m pretty sure I already exceeded the limit just saying this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i'm fairly sure the point (whether calculated, or more likely, mostly not) of having politics moved there is because there is no political topic that could be discussed properly there. it makes for good, distracting noise.

it makes for a lack of meaningful critique, or for that critique to be instantly buried in bad actors. noise is a shield. noise is easily dismissable.

monetized social media, in general, is made to be clickbait, to feed negative emotions because that's what gets people addicted to outrage, it steers people towards thinking less and reacting more. nuanced discussion and thoughtful spaces are drowned out and cast aside for the loudest and most obnoxious players. this is appealing for someone trying to uphold the status quo or push society towards hate.

i don't think it's a coincidence that politicians have moved there, that spaces have become so polarized and negatively charged, and that the most prime example of both of these happenings is xwitter. everything is connected in this big, terrible, and vaguely randomly evolved system. i do think evolution is the best word for it. what lives, survives to propagate. it doesn't matter how healthy it is. the result is this blind, meandering, gargantuan worm, following the scent of blood, feeding on the worst of it all.

xwitter is easy and, notably, if you're a powerful white man, you can build your base with no accountability. it exists in this space where it's the most serious news source that almost no one takes that seriously. of course it's appealing.

[–] daltotron 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i’m fairly sure the point (whether calculated, or more likely, mostly not) of having politics moved there is because there is no political topic that could be discussed properly there. it makes for good, distracting noise.

It's more stupid than that. The idea is that 140 characters is a lower barrier of entry for a reader, compared to reading a series of paragraphs that might be able to at least talk about something, or attempt to summarize an issue. It's why accounts like wint can pop off, and become so prolific.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] daltotron 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean I just don't think it's so much a calculated effort by the ruling class as kind of a natural evolution of the market taking hold of and exploiting the human mind to the nth possible degree, such as they have always done.

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[–] TrickDacy 4 points 6 months ago

Yes exactly. Which is one of a few reasons why I wish people would stop using it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I've found a fair amount of strong loyalty to the place from all sorts of people. I was never a twitter person, so I don't understand it, but AFAICT, all sorts of people have a real emotional bond to the place, like for them it's been their main internet experience in life or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I just like watching it burn

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[–] MaximilianKohler 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I made accounts on Mastodon and Blue Sky but most people still use Twitter, so if there's info you're looking for, or if you want to share things, you're forced to use what most people are using.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I deleted my 2007-era Twitter account in 2022 and not once have I felt like I was missing out on any “info” or felt like I wasn’t able to share things.

[–] RaoulDook 8 points 6 months ago

I've never had a Twitter account and never felt the need for one, also haven't been missing out on that junk. I've read lots of tweets, on occasions when I was offered a twitter link for whatever, but just never felt like I needed to join up at all. Just seems like a waste of time to get on social media where all the posts are just small bits of opinionated content without much depth.

[–] PopOfAfrica 3 points 6 months ago

Seriously, I just dont understand microblogging. It seems deliberately shallow.

[–] Broken_Monitor 13 points 6 months ago

Thats cool but it is a transitional thing. If you keep going back the transition doesn’t happen. Stand your ground.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What info do you need from Twitter you can’t get elsewhere unless you’re a journalist? Genuine question this isn’t bait lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just accepted I'm not getting the information now; but a whole bunch of small creators will basically only talk about their content and schedule on twitter. Like if something is going to be late, they are going on vacation or they are doing an extra stream or etc.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I’m not sure, but wanted to add another hot take: if you’re a journalist and you use Twitter as a primary source for your work, you’re not a journalist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

You can do your part to get that info off of Twitter.

Get a separate browser just for Twitter use. If there’s info that’s only on Twitter re-post it elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I hear you ... most people are still there (I've claimed in the past that it will be the MS Windows of social media, that no one really openly talks about using but is actually everywhere).

But I feel it may be useful to distinguish FOMO and social media gossip from actual useful information. I'm not saying there's nothing useful on Twitter (I don't actually know). But we're talking about microblogging and social media here.

[–] JJROKCZ 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And Reddit, and Facebook while we’re at it

[–] buddascrayon 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was resistant to ending my use of reddit, but now they have nerfed the mobile site so bad I can't even login anymore so I've stopped trying. I still peruse it on my PC at least once daily but I think that the moment RES finally stops working will spell the end of that.

As for Facebook. I mostly keep it around for an easy connection to family and friend and a few meme groups that amuse me. But again, only like once a day do I check in ion that site.

Edit: I should mention that I have never and will never use either of those website's apps.

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