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Unrelated, but what's the best way to read a thread when somebody posts a twitter link like this? I've never really used Twitter but it seems like there's no way to tell if there are any relevant replies or anything more than just this one image unless you login.

I used to use threadreaderapp but now it seems like they are asking for a login too :/

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I just move on to something else. Twitter's not worth the time/hassle.

1000%. If you have something worth saying, say it somewhere other than X, so that people can read it without a hassle.

Even if you could see the replies they would almost all be off-topic attempts by paid "verified accounts" to take advantage of the eyeballs on the popular post they are replying to.

Twitter replies to any post that is semi-popular have been a worthless jumble of engagement bait for about a year now.

  Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

   Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com

Not to single out twitter because a lot of web sites simply appear as a blank page.

The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

But if you must:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

At the moment, this worked for me:

https://xcancel.com/soren_iverson/status/1801253187602788424...

nitter was awesome but since x, i just ignore the twitter void ... https://nitter.cz/

As that site states, public Nitter instances are no longer viable.

Some Nitter instances remain. I don't know how.

Replies clarify it's satire.

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