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SquaredCircle Rule Change/Addition: Re - Twitter/X (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Going forward, we will not be allowing direct links to Twitter/X posts here on SquaredCircle. *

There's no need to be driving traffic to Twitter at this point, let's be honest. For those without accounts it's a mess to try and use, it doesn't embed properly, plus a large number of wrestlers and companies have moved over to Bluesky (tho sadly not all of course). Plus ya know..everything else.

Should anyone have news/something funny/etc to post from Twitter/X please:

A) Use a url replacer (such as https://nitter.poast.org/, or http://xcancel.com/, just replace the corresponding part of the URL)
B) Find the comparable post on Bluesky and post that (e.g. Fightful posts, which are posted in both locations)
C) Post a screenshot of the post instead. (Either in the original post, or a comment, or whereever works).

It's obviously hard to avoid using it entirely until all wrestlers/wrestling media does, but it's at least the first step.

* I know this probably affects me much more than any of you as I post everything but still lol~

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

xcancel.com also works!

More importantly, if you use LibRedirect, it will handle the redirect automatically (and handle embeds, too). It works in Firefox\Fennec for Android too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suspect some wrestlers won't move to Bluesky, cuz y'know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

And tbh: All the better for some of em lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for doing this. Elon is Nazi trash, and even beyond that, Zombie Twitter is just unusable at this point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Thank you X is difficult to use without account

[–] icecreamtaco 10 points 1 day ago

good

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sounds good to me! That's what I've been doing for years anyways.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Stupid. Dumb. Have my down vote.

X is shit, so is Meltzer, we haven't banned him.

Edit: Just to be clear, I support not wanting to give support to twitter but not everybody has moved to an alternative nor wants to convert to nitter every time we post something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not the first downvote I've gotten, not the last. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'll be able to live.

Meltzer, yes, hasn't been banned. Meltzer also (seemingly) isn't a white supremacist/nazi with his own platform that barely works if you don't have an account, which stops you from seeing replies without an account, which doesn't embed without an account, etc.

Also the amount of Meltzer posts made here (where the information has not already been reported/verified by others) is absolutely minimal and has been for many months. The last WON/F4W post was 30 days ago (Bandido's injury)/AEW's TV deal. You have to go back 2 months to find the one prior to those (Juice's injury). I purposely do my best not to post unconfirmed Meltzer news here, so I'm not sure what kind of comparison you think you're trying to push through here. Twitter/X urls are posted daily, Meltzer links are not.

but not everybody...wants to convert to nitter every time we post something.

Well the amount of people who post Twitter url's here is me, myself and I. I can go back 2mo (which is as far as I please for this scenario) and the number of people who make threads with Twitter links besides me is nil.

If someone isn't willing to take the 11 seconds to Nitter-fy the URL or just take a shitty screenshot of the post and post it instead, then that someone has an alternative option already: Not posting Twitter links at all, and going on with their day. I'm the laziest son of a bitch you can find and if I can do it, you can too lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not the first downvote I've gotten, not the last. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'll be able to live.

You're supposed to be on the floor unable to console yourself with how dumb someone on the internet whom you don't know finds this.

Well the amount of people who post Twitter url's here is me, myself and I. I can go back 2mo (which is as far as I please for this scenario) and the number of people who make threads with Twitter links besides me is nil.

While I don't make posts often I can see on three occasions I have used it to make a topic. One of which was at 3mo ago with WWE releases, and another at 4mo ago with the new NXT design.

You've also been at this long enough to know Musk keeps trying to break nitter and it was almost gone for a bit there. Screen shots are also easily faked.

Not posting Twitter links at all, and going on with their day.

Not a problem my overlord. (-_-)ゝ

As I said I support not wanting to give him business or use his shit, I just think this isn't it.

Now for some brevity... on t.lemmy.zip your shrugging dude has a huge arm on one side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, now! You're not supposed to be joking and civil, you're supposed to be slinging slurs and insults back and forth un...

Fuck it, I'm not finishing it, y'all get the joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, but Meltzer isn't literally a Nazi, so that puts him at least one step up over Musk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Musk-Donald people feel like something new that mixes the Nazism with the Russian Oligarchy system, equally as scary but I think we need to give it it's own name.

I want it on record, I'm not disagreeing he's as dangerous as the rest of them, I just don't see this doing anything or being worth the effort that suddenly the Redditsphere mods went into overdrive yesterday pushing X-Twitter bans across hundreds of subreddits (and lemmy instances) like we haven't known what they are for damn near 8 years now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Better late than never.