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ethanwillis

No thanks, I support an open web.

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You support the open web by stealing from the closed one!

I'm glad you get it!

Hack the planet!

The really stupid thing is you have to know you’re missing stuff.

If you’re sent a random link you can’t tell if it’s a one-off or a 45 tweet thread.

It looks open but it’s clearly not.

Ignoring the closed web is not the same as supporting the open web. I support whatever mirrors and tools get closed knowledge into the open.

(Edited to remove snark.)

And yet a short time later: "Instance has been rate limited. Use another instance or try again later."

> Choosing ignorance over knowledge

If there's some piece of knowledge that's absolutely, positively critical to my life, it will exist somewhere that actually matters, not on Twitter.

Sure, but almost no knowledge that is interesting, valuable, useful, etc., is absolutely, positively critical to your life. Almost nothing on HN has that level of importance, but you are here learning interesting things, and unfortunately the first place some of those things appear is still Twitter.

Where does it end, fellow person? What is going to be the excuse/defense/workaround whenever Nitter instances are completely suffocated? Just suck it up and sign up so you can continue to participate on a increasingly hostile, toxic, manipulated platform in service of a narcasists deranged ego? Because Joe Bob Expert is too lazy to post elsewhere? No, I'm sorry, but when is enough, enough?

I know I'm missing out on good content, and I don't care. I have _some_ self-respect.

I don't even know if that's true, but I don't care. Twitter, at this point, is far more egregious than reddit, and I swore months ago I'd never contribute there. It blows my mind that people still play in Elon's piss-filled sandbox because they love the dopamine hits of bot-inflated engagement metrics.

Yes, you casual reader that keeps posting on Twitter due to laziness and momemtum, I'm absolutely talking about you. Your laziness is hurting everyone. And I'm not alone, you're limiting your audience and prioritizing, well, people too lazy to get off Twitter, and ignoring the technical, prescient (observant, at this point?), informed crowd that have left for elsehwhere. /shrug

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