From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 22 Nov 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   This is the truth! Whenever someone gives me a link to one of those sites   
   that does not work with firefox, I do not read it. It is sad that   
   businesslife forces me to have a chrome spy program installed on my   
   computer for work.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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