@stux

The good ol' loginwall that social media sites have been moving to for a few years. Meta is also guilty of this... making it almost impossible to check out anything without a login.

Good, I don‘t want to see it anyway and the less people use it the better for the world.

Just a reminder that nitter exists, which lets you browse twitter without needing an account, from a minimal ui and having everything proxied through the instance of choice for privacy. You can use the libredirect firefox addon to automatically redirect twitter (& optionally other services like youtube/reddit, etc to its frontend like nitter).

You can view a list of instances here.

edit: ... wow it looks like nitter's also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip..

@stux good. now we can really pressure public services to move from it.

It's frustrating, but I'm betting it won't last. With all the people who only visit twitter via links from other sites (or those embedded tweets in news articles), doing something like this will cause twitter's page traffic to suddenly implode. Which will cause their advertisement impression statistics to implode. Which will make their paying advertisers explode. And then twitter will roll it back.

Unless, of course, Elongated Muskrat is intentionally and purposefully trying to completely remove twitter from existence. In which case, this is a pretty clever move.

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

@stux
@MissingThePt
I'm now expecting Elon Jr. (Spaz) to do the same on Reddit because Elon is his idol and mentor.

I wish there was an option on #DuckDuckGo to exclude search results that point to Twitter since I can no longer read them. It's now just clutter in the search results.

It isn't a paywall if you can make a free account to access it.

and nothing of value was lost. . .

Oh lovely, another loginwall...

You only have to login, but what if I don't want an account with you just to read what someone's put on there?

Oh no!

Anyway...

@stux As I said on Mastodon: it probably is another “bug” that plagues Twitter since… “this guy” put his hands on it. It could be fixed soon because of the ruckus it will certainly make.

For now, you can still use Nitter instead.

@stux Big day for Nitter instances https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

It actually started to work for me without account when Elon bought it. Maybe it's geographical, you're not only person who says that.

It makes me really happy to see these ass-CEOs destroying their shitty platforms and making people consider moving to the Fediverse :)

Edit for all those who where worried about a "misleading title"🧡

Twitter: You need to turn off two-factor authentication because we put that behind a paywall.

Twitter: You need an account to view content now.

These two things combined just mean I'm not going to be looking at Twitter content, period. I refuse to disable 2FA and make my account less secure, so I just logged out. By logging out, I now am unable to view content. Twitter's slowly doing everything they can to kill off the efficacy of corporate messaging on their platform, huh?

@stux
That’s like having to pay a cover charge to see 80 year old strippers.

And now the wall is back down.

Fine by me.

I tried to stop giving Twitter any clicks at all some time ago, but it didn't always work because so many people insist on linking it on other sites, so I'd occasionally end up giving Twitter a click inadvertently.

Now that'll just take me to a login page that I'll back out of.

It's a terrible decision, but I think they just couldn't keep the servers up for the average user because of the "optimizations". People look for news on Telegram anyway nowadays.

@stux hurts just a little. No more lurking from the shadows

@stux Well, I don't mind. If I wanted to see something there, I'd use Nitter. At least my friend won't be sending me links to twitter anymore.