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Comment by asylteltine | Hacker News Reader

I hate twitter posts. They never have any context and post as if you have all of the context already. And you can’t even see original posts or replies without being logged in. Please don’t post twitter or be kind and just use nitter

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It's fine to post workaround links in the comments, but top level URLs need to point to the original source.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html re paywalls.

You might prefer this: https://www.flexport.com/blog/global-ocean-carriers-halt-red...

this is a voting-based site

If it were possible to downvote posts on HN, I'd have been downvoting every Twitter link for the past decade. Please post somewhere that's actually readable.

One cannot downvote submissions, only comments. This seems to be largely a non-sequitur as one can only not vote up something.

I have, for example, downvoted your comment as it is not useful and is a bit snide or condescending (inclusive “or” to be clear), whereas had you posted your comment as a post, I would not have been able to do so.

Nitter allows people to see the context of a thread without having to log in to Twitter. By posting a nitter link, you're enriching the conversation instead of either annoying people or doing marketing for x/twitter.

The platform shouldn't be the point of a conversation. If a platform makes itself the center of attention, there's something wrong with it.

Why involving another website? Twitter links should be ok. Just create an account, its free.

Some of us don’t want to provide material support to Elon Musk in any way, including providing Twitter a recorded history of our browsing habits related to the site which could later be used to monetize our individual behavior.

That is correct. But those people on HN want to be able to read content, or lets say, to spy on a site they despise, from the, huuuh, evil enemy.

They can not have it both ways and i find it hypocritical. Don't read twitter then.

We did have it both ways -- for over a decade -- until Elon Musk bought the company.

It is not easy to change habits. But once in a while, one has to.

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