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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think there's ever been anything I've absolutely needed to see there and used nitter for a couple of curiosities.

I'm sure I won't miss it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

nitter is breaking too unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean it's not much of a change, considering a minimal amount of activity would result in you getting bombarded with super pushy sign-in popups.

With this and Reddit pulling the shenanigans they are pulling, it sucks to see a large portion of Google's results suddenly become useless, but it's nothing but a growing pain in the path to a more decentralized internet.

[–] BeMoreCareful 3 points 2 years ago

Makes you wonder if Google is going to deprioritize reddit and Twitter in search.

I have to think that would have some sort of effect.

[–] theinstantwin 16 points 2 years ago

He has to be purposely running into the ground. That's the move of a person who has no idea what they're doing.

[–] L1C4U5E 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea fuck'em... I had my account banned for no apparent reason recently and I now have no plan to use their garbage platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I deleted my Twitter account the day the Elon bought it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Me too. I'm not gonna be on a platform run by someone who just wants it to exhibit control over dissent + try and build his weird parasocial relationships with teens and children.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I am not logging back into Twitter. They already lost my trust.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just another good reason to use Mastodon 😎

[–] DevCat 9 points 2 years ago

It's so nice of them them to give me another incentive not to visit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yep I noticed that today. Oh well, I'm never signing back into Twit. No more tweet reading for me unless somebody posts a screenshot I guess.

[–] alabastercello 4 points 2 years ago

I only ever visited Twitter by way of embedded videos in articles and opinion pieces where they were linked. Now I'll never visit because I don't care enough to have an account. Great job Twitter!

[–] danieljackson 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's just javascript. You can use ublock zap feature to remove the modal, this is why nitter is still working.

To much work for them to do authorization at the API level, they most likely fired all of their backend engineers already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nitter isn't working anymore though, and trying to view a tweet while logged out forces you to twitter.com/i/flow/login now so you can't just block the modal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Good to hear! I was thinking nitter isn't working anymore

Edit :

It doesn't work, looks like I'll use mastodon more often

[–] danieljackson 1 points 2 years ago

You're right. My bad, we can't zap it or use nitter anymore :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can you enlighten me how this works? I would love to be able to zap that modal :)
Even if its only another resource. I tried what i could find online but it keeps pushing me to the /i/flow/login

[–] danieljackson 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah. It looks like I was mistaken and was in some sort of a/b test. The new version now redirect you to a login page, there is no modal anymore :( . Sorry for the false hopes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I hadn’t thought of that. Nice tip!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think so? It seems like you're directed to a login page. There is no modal and no content under it. I'm only on my phone now so can't be that sure, but it looks like it.

[–] danieljackson 1 points 2 years ago

Yes. You're right. I was in some sort of A/B testing. This morning I can't zap it anymore. It's just redirecting to /i/flow/login :/

[–] doon 3 points 2 years ago

I tried to log in recently and my account I had only used to follow a few people back in the day was banned. Then I tried to make a new account and it kept erroring out, sending me back to the home feed. Is Elon just doing all the programming himself now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

at this moment:

  1. twitter.com requires a login to view anything
  2. nitter.net is still able to load tweets and timelines

I wonder if one of those is by accident?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It always nice when the trash takes itself out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Seems to have killed my nitter list too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That’s good news. It probably means that they’re losing users like crazy and have to resort to shady practices like this one in order to force signups.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Glad i ocnly care about mastodon and lemmy. Each news story about all this makes me more and more glad with every headline

[–] Aviandelight -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But where will Reddit get it's content now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Lol that's true, half of the posts i saw on there were just screenshots of some tweets