Twitter

That’s not what paywalled means.

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.

@stux

and nothing of value was lost. . .

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.

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

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.

@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.

Oh no!

Anyway...

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?

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.

@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

Turning the internet into walled gardens was always their plan. Kill everything open and free, force everyone into their controlled spaces, then flood them with ads and noise. That was the plan from day one.

Between this, reddit apps going down today, and YouTube coming out and saying they are implementing a 3 strikes and you're out policy on using adblockers. The internet got a lot shittier really fast.

It's almost like Elon wanted to help push twitter users as well as the reddit exodus to lemmy

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

@stux Get ready for a new influx of Mastodon users!

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

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?