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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't know what this qualifies as but

Twitter error, red background, yellow danger sign next to it, reading "Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com"

Hey, sounds like that's your problem? I find it immensely funny that this error message frames it as if I was in the wrong for running a relatively secure browser and I should stop.

Sneer: Also I don't understand what "x.com" is, I typed in "twitter.com" into the bar...

[-] maol@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago

Firefox should put this screenshot in their ads

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

I just wonder at the horrible hacks they need to employ to have your twitter login data automatically still work on x

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

weird it never was an issue on nitter, maybe enhanced tracking protection protects from enhanced tracking. who knew

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

it's ecks being narky in a new way

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago

wildly speculating[0]: every other twitter money idea that felon's had so far hasn't worked out, so now they'll try the open-the-data-floodgates model for seeing if the (remaining) databrokers (that still have anything on the site) are willing to give a few pennies more

([0] - I do mean wildly. haven't checked a lick of data to see if the guess hold up. but then, neither would have felon either)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago

(the far more likely (and far more boring) reason is likely something benign, "there's no developers around to deal with whatever issue ETP is causing on their un-/barely-maintained webUI" is a good candidate)

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Xcom has always been a place where hope goes to perma-die

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