A plea to the Admins to block "X" post embedding...

[highplainsdem]

9. You changed your wording from "a rightwing source" to "a rightwing-owned source" - and I'll agree with

that changed wording. The fact that Mark Kelly is NOT a rightwing source doesn't change. As long as X provides important news and worthwhile commentary or entertaining tweets that can't be found elsewhere, I'll continue to post about tweets.

You're likely to find embedded tweets in news stories, too, including from news sites very disapproving of Musk and his politics, and they use those tweets for the same reasons I do. Maybe you should contact all of those sites and demand that they never embed tweets. They'll embed Instagram posts, too, and Zuckerberg is backing Trump, so you could try starting a crusade against that, even if the Instagram posts come from liberal sources. But they'll continue to understand there are good reasons for embedding those posts.

I used the Threadreader link because it was handy, saved time, and was easier for DU readers because you have to be logged in to Twitter to see later posts in a thread without a direct link. I'll post tweets otherwise. I do use Bluesky posts much of the time when a Twitter user is on both platforms and has posted a message on both, but if it hasn't shown up yet on Bluesky I'll post the tweet, because many people on both sites post more onTwitter. They usually have many more followers on Twitter.

And Bluesky is not as internet-friendly as Twitter, both because posts there don't appear as anything but links here and may never be anything but links here, and because those links open very slowly compared to any other sites I visit. I've had complaints that Bluesky links go to a blank page, simply because it looks that way at first.

The one advantage Bluesky has over Twitter in terms of accessibility from other sites is that you can read both later posts in a thread and replies to that thread if you click on a link for a Bluesky post, even if you aren't logged in to Bluesky. Which used to be possible with Twitter, but now requires being logged in.

Bluesky also gathers data. And I've seen posts questioning the money behind Bluesky. I would not bet on Bluesky still having the same ownership in a few years or continuing to show a pro-liberal bias unless it's bought by a lifelong liberal.

Musk loses money on Twitter, unless you subscribe or click on ads. I'm still hoping he'll lose control of it. I'd guess that many of the liberals continuing to post on it are hoping the same.