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But in this case, I did quote the whole tweet. I include the link for those who want to verify.

Fair point. And I thank you for that.

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That's the second issue here - the bot not only berated you with some preset text, it berated you in error.

"X links are spam", sure whatever. So are all the paywalls, the scam promotions, the drama, the endless podcast bullshit, the news... basically nearly everything we see, also on SN. The comments are sometimes useful.

Repeated bot messages are spam too though. Fighting fire with even more retarded fire. This bot used to be useful. Now it is some activist tool that tries to make posters feel guilty, so it is muted for me now. Somehow the SN popo is back at it and I'm not having it. I regret commenting to it though.

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This bot used to be useful. Now it is some activist tool that tries to make posters feel guilty

Agreed on that.

But I also think a lot of people don't even realize that X links aren't accessible without creating an account.
It doesn't justify the guilt tripping though. I'm with you on that.

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It doesn't justify the guilt tripping though. I'm with you on that.

The message could definitely be improved. Any suggestions for making it less guilt-trippy?

I want to change it anyway, because I think @nerd2ninja is getting a notification for every linked item. He could mute me too, though, lol.

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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 26 Aug

I get that it's annoying, so I'm with you on muting me, but I think it's a valuable reminder that most discussion happens inside a walled garden, and users don't even realize.

It's not just for the OP to read; it's for everyone to read. It's nice that @Scoresby puts in the effort to copy the content from Twitter, but this just proves my point. It's ridiculous that he has to do that. And the replies are still hidden. So the discussion itself, the most valuable part of Twitter, is STILL not accessible.

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