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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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[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

nitter.poast.org inexplicably still works. I'm too scared to ask why.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

this place has certain reputation which probably would in part explain why

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

yeah, i thought it's common knowledge that they're packed with nazis https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/poa.st just like most of pleroma instances (especially with soapbox) for that matter

update 2: record from another bad actor instance list that is not currently on fire https://tweaking.thebad.space/location/9982cd18-4ada-4d08-85b7-d02177cb11bf

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh, I see a dogwhistle on their frontpage. know what kind of people they are now.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

yeah you might want to review federation allowlist in detail

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

I still haven’t found the spoons to set up my own shit, but good to be aware of (and I might ping at the time)

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago

thank you. bookmarked.

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Twitter disabled guest accounts (a username-less temporary access that apps and sites used to show a feed before you logged in) and so the main dev threw in the towel. Nitter still works, but requires real accounts now. So presumably the few nitter mirrors still working are reprogrammed to use real accounts behind the scenes.