As a shareholder--good. As a lazy Twitter reader--bad.
You're a shareholder seeking short-term gains. That doesn't really absolve you of this opinion.
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
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#282Great news. I deactivated my account a few months ago, but once in a while I still find myself opening the site to read tweets from people I used to follow. Now I won't waste time any more.
Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
#283Alternative frontends like Nitter[1] should hopefully continue to work. They could always scrape as an authenticated user if that becomes necessary. [1] https://nitter.net/
All Instagram frontends are broken now, so if Twitter goes through with the change Nitter's days are numbered.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they have a monopoly on the public square, arguments could be made...
There should not be a channel for government communications that is only available upon giving money or information to a private party. (But that's a ship that sailed long before the internet age. "Want to know the laws? Pay up!")
talk to your electeds about regulation then.
Public sector and publicly funded groups should be communicating through standards-based channels. Their content belongs to the digital commons. This exists today, via the ActivityPub and RSS sphere of ecosystems.
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#285When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.
I almost hesitate to share these because I too found that Reddit's dark patterns were a large part of what helped me break that habit. I recently discovered teddit.net which is a frontend for reddit with all dark patterns removed. There is also an alternative front end for twitter called nitter.net that you can use the same way to avoid the app / login.
Using a 3rd party mobile client also does the trick - no ads either. Apollo on iOS is awesome.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
I almost hesitate to share these because I too found that Reddit's dark patterns were a large part of what helped me break that habit. I recently discovered teddit.net which is a frontend for reddit with all dark patterns removed. There is also an alternative front end for twitter called nitter.net that you can use the same way to avoid the app / login.
For reddit, IMO the simplest things you can do to improve the experience is to force the old reddit design (old.reddit.com) when on desktop, and use any app except the official app when on mobile.
I use old.reddit on mobile as well. Personally I prefer panning & zooming on the desktop version of a site to the mobile design in general
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#287I've literally just spent a couple of hours integrating Nitter.net's RSS feed into my custom feed reader. Why a couple of hours? Because Nitter for some reason returns a 404 header instead of 200 when it gives you the RSS feed data. Consequently stuff like PHPs file_get_contents() and curl_exec() return absolutely nothing... took me ages (via trying to shell out to curl, and then back to using the lib again) before I…
By the way, the Feedbro RSS reader lets you subscribe to twitter accounts like an RSS feed:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
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#288This is user hostile a bit maybe but the content wasn't blocked, you read what you linked to. If you want to browse around and do something more than passively consume, aka actually be a user of the site, then log in. Don't really hate them for this. All you lurkers that just consume consume and then demand some input over how a site works (coincidentally this post is on reddit which is the other one that comes to mi…
Twitter's track record is nothing but user-hostility at this point. Look at the bigger picture please, people.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, instead of a phone number you can: * Give us your Credit Card information * Give us a picture of your real life self Neither of these are solutions to the privacy and compromise potential problem that is the 'phone number or else' requirement. Its objectively worse, so that you go "oh, guess you can have my phone number instead".
I want to go further here. - Combat spam. - Be large. - Allow (pseudo-)anonymous accounts. A social network can only pick two.
Okay, I'll bite.
How does allowing people to read (but not post) without logging in produce "spam"?
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
"For your protection." The most abused and dishonest phrase of the 21st century.
Along with "For your own safety".
"safety" is a term that's been abused since at least 1793: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety