Yes. I fucking despise the fact that it’s no longer possible in the modern world to have a discussion about literally anything without someone derailing it by making it about being left v right. Personal bugbear.
And in my personal opinion, it’s platforms like Twitter which have massively fuelled that and encouraged people to see the world through that lens.
But the statement from COG says it’s because X is posting far right stuff so I think it’s reasonable for me to think it’s making into a right Vs left thing.
I think X is displayed by some slight of hand that I don’t understand which is why there is the irritating delay. I posted from Bluesky and Masterdon last night and they both appear to display pictures.
Extremism is not a right vs left thing.
Yes, because much of the far-right crap is based on outright falsehoods and disinformation, and it’s far louder than the far-left crap. Most of the loony far-left crap doesn’t even make it because it’s just laughed at and ignored. But too many people believe the far-right crap.
Doesn’t make it a left vs right issue, it just makes it a truth vs lies issue.
If my own experience is anything to come by, it’s because the iframe loads scripts from Xesspit to do so.
I’m not sure if it was you I was having a conversation with in another thread about how I don’t get previews. I also have NoScript that blocks out any scripts from Xesspit.
Well, those posts from threads came up straight away which is a much nicer reading experience. It’s just a pity that the pictures don’t show.
I wonder if that’s something @ISMF could work on at the back-end…
He said, from a position of total ignorance 
Do you really want to see Paul Joyce’s face, especially first thing in the morning?
Well, I’m not that bothered about that. The second post I put in had a picture of Ronald Koeman which was part of the story. Now I can imagine what Koeman looks like but for a football forum, a picture can be worth a thousand words.
It’s rich for people in the west to tell me that it’s not left Vs right because you all fucking speak left and right every single time. The left and right think they are correct always. The left and right thinks the other side is always to be blamed for whatever shit happened. People who vote for right or left will always be called names by the other side. So yeah it’s not right or left.
As far as I’m aware given what @ISMF has said, I don’t think it’s technically possible. I used to have less of an issue with the Xesspit because at least the API used to allow previews that were formatted by the site so they displayed immediately (and in full), meaning I could completely avoid that Xithole if I wanted to.
Now, I believe you have to use the embed method, which means that it has to load from Xitter, resulting in these issues.
This is literally the point I made above. And extremism of any kind sits outside of the normal political spectrum imho, wherever you are in the world, surely that’s understood?
This is exactly the type of polarised drivel that X fosters.
Filtered through your own biases maybe, from a place that has absolutely no political culture whatsoever, just whatever your masters tell you to do.
For me it is a truth vs lies thing. I’m happy to read opinion pieces of any flavour as long as they are informed opinion. In fact, I rather miss the fact that there are hardly any centre-right opinion pieces left. One of the few places left that you actually get them is the Guardian which is a firmly liberal-left publication.
Haha sure it’s back to the Singapore has no political culture and that we are puppets that only listened to the government. Yea only the West is smart and we have no mind of our own. No wonder the West is in a crap place and still think they have any moral authority because of oh yea we are democratic.
I read the Grauniad a lot, but selectively. They have a lot of drivel on there too.
I miss having publications with actual genuine journalism. Mostly rely on the FT and Reuters for that (although the former is expensive so I have to rely on scraps).
@cynicaloldgit, Can’t have censorship. Twitter is a cesspit but that’s a reflection of the society nowadays.
Be like me. Diss the right and left both equally.
Previously it was easy to use an alternative Twitter frontend called Nitter, but this got less functional with the API limitation @ISMF mentioned.
Here’s an example of a tweet using an existing instance of Nitter to show the message:
https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/_pauljoyce/status/1829558868612960675
Replacing x.com by nitter.lucabased.xyz will load the corresponding message, without ever loading anything from X.
I believe it’s still possible to have a functioning Nitter instance as long as traffic is low. If this works for people, I could look into setting up a Nitter instance for this purpose and it should be quite easy to automatically rewrite any x.com or twitter.com to make it seamless to use for anyone.