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Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.

Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related

Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Lemmy is exactly what government bodies need. Anyone from other instances can see, vote and comment. They can limit sign up to only employees and their users immediately have an official seal of authenticity. @[email protected] would be so cool.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think Mastadon might be better for that.

[–] tryagain 1 points 1 year ago

Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.

[–] tryagain 1 points 1 year ago

Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.

[–] tryagain 1 points 1 year ago

Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.

[–] tryagain 1 points 1 year ago

Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.

[–] tryagain 1 points 1 year ago

Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.

[–] zeppo 21 points 1 year ago

They absolutely should be setting up lemmy or mastodon as official announcement sites. That would be a perfect platform.
I think they also want to be on twitter, fb etc for the distribution potential though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would prefer @[email protected] so that it makes it easier to defederate from extreme right wing presidents if, god forbid, they get in power again.

Also for archival purposes.