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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the "What's happening?" sidebar. As part of a "timeline takeover" -- which gives

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

  • @dynamojoeEnglish
    146•1 year ago

    Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

      • [email protected]English
        48•1 year ago

        Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.

      • @elshandraEnglish
        -9•1 year ago

        It cleanly didn’t block this post.

        • @[email protected]English
          14•1 year ago

          Yes. Because this post is not on twitter. It’s on a site called lemmy.world. I don’t think it even looks like twitter?

          If you want no mention of twitter or the musky chodelet, I recommend Connect, a Lemmy app for Android. It features a keyword block list, so you can add as many twitter related keywords as you need.

          • @elshandraEnglish
            0•1 year ago

            I thought that’s more what the original comment was asking for, maybe I misinterpreted. Ps. Sorry for wasting your time explaining things I already know by not clarifying my sarcasm, but you helped someone else so it worked out alright.

    • @DuamerthraxEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I’m sure there’s an addon for Firefox if you’re really inclined.