WT:Social VS CNN

I’d be interested in seeing what they do with https://wt.social/ I don’t feel like it has gained a lot of traction. Perhaps it could be migrated to a Lemmy/Kbin/They’re own AcivityPub. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Https://wt.social/ that is being made by the creator of Wikipedia, as a Twitter replacement. No ads. Source: 11 months ago

Your headline claims doesn't hold up (pretty sure Ello, wt.social, MeWE and a bunch of others will make the same "content first" claim). Source: 11 months ago

Https://wt.social/ also hits you with a registration wall with no links to show you screenshots or anything at all, except it does at least have the left-hand sidebar text (and there's a similar https://wt.social/about there too). Source: 11 months ago

Where are you thinking of moving to? Some others I've looked at: Https://cohost.org/ - one of the more promising ones I've seen Blue Sky - but fuck dorsey, amirite? Https://twtxt.net - indie twitter clone Https://calckey.org/ federated Https://spacehey.com/ 🙃 Https://pixelfed.social/ (federated but popular as an insta alternative) Https://wt.social/ (from wikipedia, is getting a face lift soon but seems... Source: 11 months ago

Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

If it's any consolation, it was top billing on cnn.com yesterday, which is where I first saw it. Entire top left of the screen was the woman's face and a huge headline. Now it's buried in a couple lines below the (digital) fold. Source: 5 months ago

Try and force the page by entering a url in the browser such as cnn.com . Also, try loading a full browser and trying to surf. What type of phone are you on? Source: 5 months ago

FWIW, I had to disable the Wipr content filtering on cnn.com to see the web site. Guess I'll get my news fix from wapo.com, now. Source: 5 months ago

I don't know what EasyList or uBlock are (i.e., I don't use those), but I got blocked by cnn.com as well. Firefox on Mac. Turns out it was the "I don't care about cookies" extension (automatically accept consent requests). Once I disabled that for cnn, it worked again. Source: 5 months ago