From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:22:56 -0000 (UTC), David LaRue wrote:   
   >   
   >> Why don't X/Twitter and the other platforms ever consider   
   >> supporting those of us that are willing to connect via a web interface   
   >> to use to their services without a phone?   
   >   
   > Twitter was, at least at one point, usable via a Web interface. Mastodon   
   > and the rest of the Fediverse are, I think, primarily accessible that way.   
      
   Posts to various blogs and mailing lists I see frequently cite URLs to   
   Xitter sites -- x.com, twitter.com, t.co.  I've never been able to   
   access them using my chosen browser (Seamonkey), even when js is   
   turned on.  No helpful diagnostic from the site, just "something went   
   wrong, try again".   
      
   I finally got a cell phone because neither of us is able any longer to   
   walk home from just anywhere -- old, y'know?  And opted for a smart   
   phone because it seemed stupid to pay through the nose for the service   
   and not have the advanced features available should I ever come to   
   want one of them.  I hate the touch-screen GUI, inaccessibility of the   
   system, inability to write scripts that modify network interactions,   
   opacity of nearly everything etc. etc.   
      
   In any case, I'm not reading blogs or mail on the phone, just on a   
   Linux desktop and all those Xitter references are effectively null.   
      
   Ho hum.   
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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