Nothing weird about Susanna Hoffs mate!
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I would take the reverse veiw.
I would ban transfer rumours from twitter as 99.99% of them are chancers just looking for attention.
@Magnusā use of twitter highlighting the warcrimes committed by Russia following their invasion of Ukraine is something that no other social media platform as successfully managed to replicate. I have lernt so much from his posts in that thread, but looking through the bullshit that gets posted on twatter transfer rumours thread makes me feel like I am getting dumber and dumber each time I visit the thread.
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I disagree slightly. Starving still takes a long time. Best option is simply to kill it with fire.
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Exactly, it can be used by propagandists from both sidesā¦ Which defines the modern information space as nothing more than a venal battleground for imbeciles.
I see RAWK are now using XCancel, which means you can view posts without ever having to visit X or login, because of Musk and the state of the platform. Just wondering if that could be an alternative way of still using it without the platform getting any of the benefits? Not sure how it would impact the website wise in terms of loading.
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While trying to research XCancel, I found this: Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism ā Mother Jones
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Scientific racism is nothing new. Itās just that today it is completely disprovable.
Do any reading on the background of any of the early work in genetics or statistics and you see one motivation - the search for the validation of theories on the white manās supremacy.
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No, but having someone so prominent blast it on a platform they own isnāt ideal.
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So, I think XCancel is an instance of Nitter being used (source: looks like X/twitter(?) broke something again Ā· Issue #983 Ā· zedeus/nitter Ā· GitHub) though I am not 100% sure how reliable the instances themselves are (as in whether there are any vulnerabilities or anything that use XCancel as a honeypot for luring unsuspecting users for nefarious purposes).
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As I said up there, the only downside of using a working Nitter instance is that thereās no preview.
In worst case scenario, an instance will stop working and then weāll need to use another. Thereās always the possibility to host one ourselves (Iām willing to do it if needed).
Forcing a rewrite of every x.com / twitter.com URL in posts is easy using the following official Discourse plugin: Watched Words Reference Guide - Site Management - Discourse Meta
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Depending on how Nitter works, havenāt looked into it thoroughly, but I think we can somehow use the iframe embeds to do this? And if so, then perhaps thereās a way to spin up a custom instance that loads the minimal amount of data required to render the preview to minimise selfhosting costs?
I officially stopped understanding anything in this thread about ten posts ago.
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Only shows the url for me.
Using chrome on phone
Think it requires Add oEmbed Support for Tweet Embeds and Previews Ā· Issue #696 Ā· zedeus/nitter Ā· GitHub to be resolved. If I understand correctly thatās what Discourse uses for native embed, otherwise @ISMF has to do something with permissions for iframes or something like that.
So technically, itās possible to do the following:
- allow iframes for specific Nitter instance(s)
- use Watch Words plugin and regex to rewrite twitter.com / x.com links into Nitter iframes.
This seems to me an acceptable compromise between banning twitter and keeping the forum loading functional for everyone.
Also not giving out more data to Melon Usk.
Over to @ISMF to shoot down this idea with very compelling arguments. 
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For reasons known to some, Musk is hated. Canāt think why. So we cancel him and his platform.
I wouldnāt because you know, freedom of speech?
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