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Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by leephillips on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:50AM (#30641325)
“Although some platforms offer an ad-free experience for their premium users, most of them aren’t.”

Aren’t what?

Anyway, you don’t have to install an extension to avoid “ads, promoted tweets, and sponsored posts” on Twitter. You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by tenebrisalietum on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:55AM (#30641415)
... most of them aren't [offering an ad-free experience.]

This is an English language phenomenon called conversational deletion. Examples of it at the beginning of sentences are here: https://learnenglishwithdemi.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/conver...

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by leephillips on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:04AM (#30641540)
No, it’s not, and the examples on the page you link to are examples of something else entirely. The subject here is “some platforms” and is not deleted.
Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by lelandfe on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:21AM (#30641787)
Although some platforms offer an ad-free experience for their premium users, most don’t.

“Are not” was also a bit awkward at the end. It was still intelligible, though.

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by tenebrisalietum on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:05PM (#30644552)
I'm not sure how you can't extrapolate from what I posted and see how conversational deletion can apply to the end of sentences?
Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by leephillips on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:34PM (#30644946)
It has nothing to do with where in the sentence the deletion is. It has to do with what is deleted.

“I like spicy food but my girlfriend doesn’t [like spicy food].”

This is correct deletion, at the end.

“I like spicy food but my girlfriend isn’t.”

This is what the illiterates who made the website are doing. It’s not conversational deletion, it’s just wrong.

EDIT: Also, and more to the point, “conversational deletion”, as defined in the link you provided, is the deletion of the subject of the sentence. This is not what is happening here, as I pointed out. Again, nothing to do with whether the deletion is at the beginning or the end.

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by tiahura on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:23PM (#30646772)
The problem is that the deleted verb (offering) isn’t parallelly conjugated to “offer” so it seems awkward.

I would change it to “most of them don’t.”

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by dewey on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:16PM (#30642770)
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

The same thing could just be achieved by using Tweetbot or another third party client, you can just follow the people as usual and it'll be a regular sorted timeline with no ads and suggestions or promoted tweets.

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by CharlesW on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:31AM (#30641986)
> You just have to do this: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

Great resource, thanks for linking!

Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by leephillips on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:33AM (#30642032)
You’re welcome; hope you find it useful.
Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by sundarurfriend on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:46PM (#30645095)
This is great! By chance, I came across this post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SzArJNSbbSikJeLD4/how-to-bes... yesterday, which also gives very similar advice; lists seem to be the core of using Twitter sensibly. And he suggests Tweetdeck as the interface to Twitter too.
Re:Show HN: Hide promoted tweets and sponsored content by leephillips on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:04PM (#30645315)
Thanks for the link. I added it to my page.