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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

(ventpost) a personalized fuckyou to musk for making it impossible for me/making twitter effectively unusable without being logged in

(context: power's out in my area atm, and (because of a variety of ZA-flavoured reasons, which are also problems..) I can't actually get any fucking info because it's all just on a twitter feed)

I still refuse to log in though (and I'll double down on hating the cunt for his choices impacting my life in this manner)

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It remains infuriating how many agencies/governments simply don’t have reliable online public feeds, with information.

Especially annoying when the only place with info is twitter and/or Facebook.

(That doesn’t fully solve the community contributions, which should also be useful, but at minimum any info from official accounts SHOULD be posted elsewhere)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

yea, strong agree

I'm going to see if I can get something done about this my side of the world, but that involves a lot of yaks

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

can you hit a repeater or something

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

do any work anymore? afaik nitter got nuked and I haven't seen anything else since

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

nitter

Just saw somebody talk about this on bluesky https://status.d420.de/ so for a short time there might be an alternative.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

no, nitter stays dead, i mean 70cm/2m band repeater or what have you locally

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

I'm in ZA. information like that here is aggressively terrible