I’m wondering if this is something that can be written up/customised as a plugin. I found this, but only skimmed the start: https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-rich-link-previews-with-onebox/9808
EDIT: Having read it further, it seems like it’s just the standard built-in functionality for Discourse, and if you want to implement something further, it’ll have to be via the iframe route, which may result in not solving the first of the original complaint.
I actually find my Twitter timeline is pretty decent.
The only time I ever see objectionable shit is when someone I am following points it out and says, ‘Look at this nasty piece of shit.’
More and more people are using screenshots rather than quoting to deprive the odious fucks of click revenue.
Yes Musk is a fuckwit, and yes those on the right should all be shot into the sun by a giant cannon, but I find it a rather useful source of news and an often entertaining source of wit.
Read everything critically and you’ll be fine, I reckon.
Step outside your bubble, and it’s absolutely terrifying.
I don’t doubt it, but I get my fill around here…
Fair enough, mate, you’ve convinced me. I’ll let you continue to wade through that cesspit, and bring us the gems which are actually worth our time. 
And same for @Livvy, with the LFC stuff! 
Ahem…
Where is my kudos for highlighting X’s best knob gags?
I very much appreciate the leniency !
I am fully aware what it has become and that both misinformation and worse, disinformation, is being broadcasted through it loudly with no censorship what so ever and that you have to use it with caution (as in corroborate and not trust hearsay from private individuals who seem to might have an agenda, which is wise in any case in general in life). It IS a more challenging platform because of those factors and I wish it wasn’t. But there are also still islands, some large, remnants of the continents that used to exist, in that swamp and I for one know how to navigate them (usually anyway).
It still remains the platform for breaking news and analysis and we have to wait for something else to come along and take over (which it will if Musk continues to murder the platform, but it will take time). But yes, you have to be careful with what you read, consider the source. But if we are honest, although Twitter has become grim like that, people should be careful with sources in general, I would argue. There is nothing wrong with googling if one is unsure of a claim for instance. I do it all the time myself, long before Musk goose stepped over Twitter.
And now I will go back to my little canoe and paddle towards my isles.
I wish…
Cheers mate.
If you can beat children, I can send RWNJs to their fiery doom.
Giving a little shit a mildly fatal beating for what he did is not exactly sentencing him to a fiery death now is it.
Of course, this was the film that Blofeld’s cat had seriously had enough and took it out on poor old Donald Pleasence.
So, putting lies out into the universe that hurt entire communities and doing it just to attract attention and make money is worthy of censure. Yet this standard doesnt apply to Musk’s twitter? One that has replatformed and protected virulently racist accounts, used an algorithm to promote them and those that exist only to push disinformation, and taken many steps to quieten people who try to speak against this. He/twitter is currently trying to sue into extinction an independent media watchdog that brought to light issues advertisers were having on new “no standards” twitter that made them reluctant to continue doing business there, and that has forced them into laying off about half their staff to cover the costs of legal fees defending themselves. FREE SPEECH
It’s almost like you don’t understand the reaction to twitter because you are presenting the case against them as one different that the critics are actually making.
Or rather, he is misrepresenting the argument that opposition to Musk/twitter is because of politics - because he supports Trump - when that is a patently bullshit presentation of the position. He is living this meme
I have already on a different thread posted my argument for continuing to use twitter, but those who have decided differently should be given the grace for actually listening to the reason for not doing so and not presenting it as some trivial “the left doesnt accept dissenting voices” BS.
Again read my first post on this subject and tell me where was your concerns when twitter before Musk, FB and Google were suppressing “conservative” views ?
Or is it only because it’s from the other side of the fence to your political beliefs that you don’t care ?
As for trump and American politics in general I have to admit I find it all boring
Way to much emphasis given to American politics …it’s a complete shit show long before trump and will continue to long after imo
Conservative views aren’t suppressed. Wouldn’t want them to be. Racist ones are. A big problem with recent free speech wars, are that many modern conservatives seem to think that their racism is a legitimate viewpoint that they are entitled to hold and should be protected.
Yes, that was bullshit as well. Again, you are living the meme I posted above.
Google is a black box, but we do know that the content that was blocked on the SM sites were predominantly from accounts associated with and promoted by the RW. Bit it was their racism and peddling of disinformation that saw them blocked, not that they were RW. What we know of the publicly available data is that from the day Facebook switched from timeline to the algorithmically driven newsfeed RW accounts were by far the most viewed and engaged with belies the idea that content is blocked because it RW. Essentially, if you lie down with dogs you get fleas and it is just a reality that over the past 8 years or so it has become increasingly difficult to separate out RW orthodoxy from ideas that are racist and based in lies.
I dont use SM, but I do have very strong views on how it works. It just so happens those views are parroting all the bad faith nonsense that fill the SM I dont use.
I know you live stateside etc but seriously that " living meme" attempt to try as classify me is not funny, you don’t know me and don’t know my views or my life so please quietly fuck off as you really are becoming annoying.
I dont know, that is true. But I can and will (when I can be bothered) respond to what you post.