Swap the domain of the URL with nitter.poast.org

https://nitter.poast.org/ianwcrosby/status/18727242319993817...

More about nitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Nitter's been dead for about a year at this point. I'm pretty sure any Nitter instance still running is using some abstract method and not the actual Nitter system.

Yea I don't think there's an alternative after Elon made changes to Twitter's API

I don’t know how they do it but xcancel works pretty good

https://xcancel.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790

It's the same Nitter, but using real accounts instead of the "guest accounts" that were used previously.

"Guest accounts" were accounts you could generate to access Twitter without actually signing up, but then Elon Musk killed them so then Nitter was basically declared dead because most people don't want to spend time making tons of actual accounts to run a Nitter instance and then Elon Musk also made the ratelimits stricter so you needed even more accounts.

Some of the bigger Nitter instances used thousands of guest accounts.

It’s not like it’s hard to get a Twitter account

this is a joke, right? who the F would want to create an “X” account these days?! crazy talk :)

“hating elon” :) only fucking idiots care about “elon” (especially enough to hate him). if your life is so empty you have to talk about elon you need to re-evaluate your life choices

> if your life is so empty you have to talk about elon you need to re-evaluate your life choices

This post, that you’ve typed up and posted online, for all to see, is about your opinion of Elon Musk

It is not.

Yes it is. If they had written “if you’re posting about hamburgers you need to reevaluate your life” that would be a post expressing their opinion about hamburgers.

No, it would not be. Their opinion about Z and their opinion about people that care too much about Z are different things.

Your post above is a failed attempt at a petty gotcha.

> Your post above is a failed attempt at a petty gotcha.

Aside from the poster I was talking to not appearing to agree with you (they immediately made another Elon post), no, it isn’t. If upon seeing the phrase “I don’t like hamburger” I am swept up with an urge to dunk and say “re evaluate your life choices for talking about hamburger” it is very obvious that I’ve taken my time to tell you that I have strong feelings about hamburger and take issue with the position taken, not the subject matter.

Seeing as they then wrote “elon hate is real” moments after my response, it is doubly clear that the issue isn’t mention of the guy but rather any negative mention of the guy.

If I go out of my way to police any negative mention of something, that is a direct expression of how I value that thing.

(The post has since been edited to “obsession with elon is real”, which, yes, it is. Some folks absolutely cannot scroll past that name without it sparking an urge to dunk)

obsession with elon is real… :)

This post too

I'll re-sign up to that shithole when hell freezes over. You're welcome.

Nitter also offers better UX for those who just want to read a Twitter thread and not interact with it. It's been like that even before the Musk acquisition.

Thanks, does nitter still work? Thought it was running into trouble so used xcancel with ok results.

However, I've found that 'the only winning move has been not to play'. Anytime I venture back it's like my psyche entering the matrix and always coming off worse.

I repeat, it really is a ... anyway.

I used to use a site called Nitter for the same reason, but it stopped working. I think X/Twitter changed something.