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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by slug to c/selfhosted
 

pour one out.

edit 1: maybe temporary? paste cause i can't even put it on archive.is right now:

@AqueelMiq this is a temporary restriction, we will re-enable logged out twitter access in the near future

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've run into this yesterday, and was puzzled not to be able to find any news about the change back then! It really does suck, and I wonder about the timing coinciding with the shutdown of Reddit APIs; yet another site full of useful content taking its toys and going home. 😑

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m cynical and assume Twitter absolutely did it on Reddit day on purpose

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The cynical in me tells me this was Musks plan all along and had been coaxing Spez to get him to implode Reddit to take off heat from this move.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Play store blocking aurora store sessions
  • Reddit API changes
  • Youtube tests disabling videos for people who use ad blockers
  • this Twitter thing

Am i forgetting something?

[–] thallamabond 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe redhat?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh dear, they've dicked Aurora up too?!

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

It has been having problems the last few weeks because google was blocking frequent request from accounts (like the anonymous accounts you use with aurora.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it economics pushing them all? Or if they all do it together there won't be as much push back against themindividually?

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

Economy is a huge driving factor to these decisions.

This is largely due to the unusually low interest rate environment we’re used to in the past 20+ years. With the low interest rates, everyone at all levels are taking on more loans. US Govt just uncapped the debt ceiling recently so they could borrow more; companies are used to getting “free” money from investors who take on cheap loans in hopes for a big payout; individuals are leveraging more and more into mortgages because property values go up, and dammit I’m working full time and I demand annual international vacations.

All these money pumped into the system is creating more opportunities to earn more, which results in more spending (that’s partially driven by the ever growing of loans), which leads to the higher rate of inflation. And to tame that inflation, the only tool we’d have at our disposal is to dial up the interest rate.

Higher interest rate leads to lesser money floating around; on the corporate side, it means lesser free money from investors because they’re no longer getting the cheap loans. As result of that, companies have to try to extract more out of what they’ve already got to keep things a float. More ads, less freebies/discounts, increasing costs, etc. are just the beginning. Pretty soon, those with less than solid business model will be unable to keep their entire staff and even larger rate of layoffs will follow, followed by eventual closures.

There’s no push back on this; individual push back or not, the companies are more likely to answer to their shareholders’ demand for profit than users’ demand for things of what was. More and more companies will follow suit and/or go under. What’s coming isn’t going to be pretty, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm just waiting for Spez to follow his idol and restrict access to Reddit to all non-logged in users. How can I petition him to do so....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yet another victim of the data rush.

How long until we'll search for information and get nothing besides SEO-optimized AI-geneted sites, instead of genuine human opinions?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Guess I'll be skipping Twitter links entirely now.

[–] drudoo 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919#issuecomment-1615136091 is the reason. Smells like bullshit. There’s no way this is correct.

Kinda sucks. Been using it to check a few tweets here and there without an account.

[–] slug 2 points 1 year ago

same, i suppose it might be possible to selfhost an instance and plug in some account credentials but it's so not worth it for the few twitter accounts i still want to keep track of.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't Elon say he hated the login-window-on-scroll just after purchasing twitter?

[–] CrypticCoffee 5 points 1 year ago

Elon says a lot, occasionally it isn't out of his arse.

[–] thegenesis 4 points 1 year ago

Michael Scott: Haha, how the turn tables!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is irritating. I use Nitter once a week to check if someone's still alive. If I see them posting crap I know they're still breathing.

[–] CrypticCoffee 4 points 1 year ago

Best to move on. Don't let them live rent free. Anger consumes you and barely touches them.