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Twitter and nostr embeds are too unreliable. Might be time to find an alternative means of embedding or stop embedding them.

245 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 16h

njump is injecting cloudflare trackers on the embed:

That one can probably be handled with a local caching ws client instead of the 3rd party one.

X... is one big tracking fest. Could snap an image and serve that though.

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412 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 16h
njump is injecting cloudflare trackers on the embed:

ugh.

That one can probably be handled with a local caching ws client instead of the 3rd party one.

That's what I've been wanting to do.

Could snap an image and serve that though.

Would probably have to snap nitter - although we pay for X's api for posting to the stacker_news account so we might be able to just cache the data and render it ourselves.

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229 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 9h

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

I was about to experiment with a custom nitter embed and I just found out that nitter got a cease and desist from X. Last week they updated the README saying that the nitter project could continue but the repo got archived a couple of days ago ...

Also TIL that you can only publish screenshots of tweets on Substack.

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151 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 59m

I think that there's a difference between running a mirror of everything that removes ad income, and quoting a tweet with original links from your own cache.

The substack thing is a special case when substack started to compete with X directly. That was a whole spat. To my knowledge, today, if you put a substack link on X your post it still gets automatically deboosted.

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268 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 16h
we pay for X's api

In that case...

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for nostr, use bxrd.app /note or /user

only gotchya is WoT gating on the indexer, so new accounts with no reputation may not be indexed

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