I know what you’re thinking: “does anybody really still use twitter?” The answer is yes! I’ve been on Twitter for ~10 years and only in the la

Fighting twitter's censorship of substack

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2024-07-06 21:00:04

I know what you’re thinking: “does anybody really still use twitter?” The answer is yes! I’ve been on Twitter for ~10 years and only in the last 6 months has it become one of my favorite places on the internet.

This is in spite of, not because of, the rebrand to X and all the changes. It’s mostly because I stumbled on a really cool part of twitter where people are kind, curious, competent and love helping each other out. For more on this, see Nabeel’s post pontificating on why “Twitter is one of my favorite software tools in the world”.

There’s a change they did recently that really bothers me: they censor substack links. You can tell because posts that link to substack get significantly less views. They also don’t show the preview card:

This is the preview card it shows for any other external link. I generated this by copying the HTML from my substack article and re-hosting it on a different domain.