Twitter content now behind login wall?
What's going on?
What's going on?
mahomz, If like me, you only engage with Twitter to the extent of clicking on a link that takes you to a Tweet, reading it and then getting the hell out before the brain dead replies consume what little remains of your soul, then can I recommend Googling up an addon for your preferred browser that redirects Twitter to Nitter as a way around this new barrier to entry.
RandomStickman, Don't know why I haven't thought about looking for this add on. Thanks for the link!
Mnmalst, (edited ) There is also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ in case you are not aware which supports A LOT of different services besides twitter.
deadcream, Most of those servers are dead though (including some nitter instances). You will need to manually disable those that don't work and it's pain in the ass.
Infiltrated_ad8271, At least until they break nitter, as they already did with the +18 content.
ch1cken, (edited ) deleted_by_author
noodlejetski, considering how its been working for years
so were third party reddit clients.
muffin, Nitter unfortunately does not work right now due to this change. Hopefully they will fix this somehow (probably by changing user agent to googlebot, because they still allow web crawlers)
xuxebiko, nitter has stopped working :(
chainsawrobot, AI generated Reddit
Ad-blocks-you-back Youtube
Login locked pay-to-win TwitterWe are cattle to the elite's ad revenue system.
hardypart, They really don't like their users, lol
sadreality, Why would alpha daddy thought leaders care about low quality organic persons?!
soft_frog, The second golden age of the internet is officially over.
Unfortunately the golden age was just a mirage, it was actually VC funds killing the ecosystem and offering impossible free services for over a decade.
We'll see if the internet can rebuild, but under the weight of spam and regulation and habit and clout chasing I'm not sure.
tallwookie, I'm fine with that.
if it's time to have conversations with actual people face to face, then so be it.
lowdownfool, The utopian dream of the internet as the great equalizer and "Information wants to be free!" is dead.
bionicjoey, Why did the whole internet seemingly decide to kick their enshittification into overdrive in the past month?
Nikelui, There's no more venture capital/free money to spend.
kestrel7, Yeah, basically it has to do with interest rates & tech speculation on LLM's.
FinalFallacy, "Market trends". One greedy dipshit does it and the rest follow suit. Like spez looking up to Elon.
AmbroisindeMontaigu, Reddit: Demonstrates that locking away content is bad for the site and the wider internet.
Elon Musk: "I want that for my website!"
GunnarRunnar, I was going to post a tweet here but found out that you can't view it without logging in -- so not worth sharing.
hardypart, They seem to be inspiring each other these days.
"Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow. "
AmbroisindeMontaigu, Inspired by someone whose idea of cost cutting is just not paying others. Any rational person should be avoiding doing business with them.
xuxebiko, same ketamine supplier maybe?
Redhotkurt, This is just going to speed the growth of Twitter alternatives like Mastodon, which is great, but it's sad to see such a once-innovative, widely-used platform degrade to this level of shittiness. All because of a deranged wealthy idiot with an unchecked ego. This was a communication platform, FFS!
Hyacathusarullistad, Twitter was on a downward spiral long before Daddy Elon took over, though.
jeena, I think it’s good, I think only Twitter blue people should be able to read tweets.
lemonflavoured, Don't give Elon ideas
PupBiru, seems like a great idea to me! everyone will rush to mastodon because this one actually costs them money and not just ideals and their soul which they have no use for right this second!
Feneric, It seems to be more than individual tweets. The whole site seems down for me if I'm not logged in.
Xperr7, Absolutely wonderful. I love looking at art on Discord, opening the tweet to get the high res pic to save (Yes, I'm aware of adding ?format=jpg&name=large at the end of the URL, already had to do it for some pics), then being blocked. Or trying to see some sports news, then being blocked again.
dreday, Can confirm.
I guess I'll never read another tweet again 🤷
VulcanSphere, Great reason to embrace #Fediverse
Thanks, Elon
Zebrazilla, I highly recommend using nitter instances to look at content from Twitter. And with the excellent LibRedirect extension, the process becomes seamless and you can bounce between instances as you please.
Zebrazilla, And now nitter no longer works.
May, Why dont ppl just post a screenshot of a tweet instead of linking it, same with reddit posts ?
Clairvoidance, (edited ) I really like being able to confirm that something isn't made up or blown out of proportion, being able to quickly check stuff like 'how many people even agree with this take (a lot of times people leave out the engagement of a post)' and 'is this a genuine person in the first place (check out their profile or other posts)' to not poison discourse with made-up issues
That said, as others in this thread have pointed to, libdirect should be encouraged so they can discourage traffic to the actual site
natarey, There are accessibility concerns with doing that, if the poster doesn't provide alt-text. Images are basically unreadable to the vision impaired.
natarey, I'm pessimistic that this will actually change much, or drive users to Mastodon. Just like, as much as I've been loving my time with Kbin/Lemmy, I don't think people are ever going to leave Reddit. Most people appear to have a way, WAY higher bullshit tolerance than I do. It's sad. The old guard are unusable, and the new options are withering on the vine.
gillrmn, Mastodon has already become viable. I switched when there was court decision that Musk had to buy twitter and deleted my account there. At that time Mastodon was ghosttown - posts related to US were very very few and refreshing the page after a minute gave handful of posts. It changed as it achieved critical mass. By that time I had gotten used to mastodon which is not very user friendly and is different from twitter. Kbin/lemmy are much similar to reddit in that regard.
Now it does the main thing twitter did for me - telling me the news - what is happening around and what others think about that. And it is much better than twitter which was mostly clickbait. It lacks in terms of depth on specific topics, but general topics are there - though you have to know how to curate those.
asteroidrainfall, I just tried to access it and I get redirection errors. I guess they didn’t account for integration testing during their most recent sprint.
lemonflavoured, I do wonder how long it will be before the official Twitter app blocks screenshots.
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