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Post by darknavi »

nunez wrote: post #110

This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(

It's extremely rough around the edges but getting into fediverse content (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) has been extremely rewarding to me.

It's like twitter and reddit but 15 years ago (and by that I mostly mean it's janky and full of bugs. Just like the web was 15 years ago!)

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Post by fireflash38 »

activitypea wrote: post #73

I just ran into this problem -- not being able to view tweets without logging in. As much as I hate Musk, this is clearly the trajectory of all platforms. Without a unified push towards self-hosting or the fediverse, the internet as we know it is over :(

It's already been super shit with how many pop-ups come up when viewing a tweet. One for an account, one for Google account, one for notifications.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by beachy »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #97
activitypea wrote: post #73

I just ran into this problem -- not being able to view tweets without logging in. As much as I hate Musk, this is clearly the trajectory of all platforms. Without a unified push towards self-hosting or the fediverse, the internet as we know it is over :(

Been over for a long time. We've had a lot of consolidation into Reddit (which, you can browse mostly anonymously, it will just beg you to death to log in unless you use the old site); and we've also had a mountain of consolidation into Discord (the most unsearchable system ever designed). People stopped hosting their own forums. Frankly, it's hard to not see why. The constant spam and people avoiding bans wasn't hel…

> modern forum software like Discourse is pure agony to set up and maintain if you don't know what you are doing

I'd like to know more about why Discourse is this way. Why the fark can't I just docker compose it up and running? I'm almost but not quite thinking about paying for a hosted Discourse solution since time is money. But why do they make it so hard?

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by 2-718-281-828 »

activitypea wrote: post #73

I just ran into this problem -- not being able to view tweets without logging in. As much as I hate Musk, this is clearly the trajectory of all platforms. Without a unified push towards self-hosting or the fediverse, the internet as we know it is over :(

there will never be a unified push but this development will eventually provide the energy and motivation for a critical mass to take action.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by b1n »

Bluesky - https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/6-02-2023-beta-update

" Roadmap and Growth

A few weeks ago, we intentionally slowed our invite roll-out while we built more moderation tooling and capacity for users on the app. We staffed a content moderation team with shifts that cover a 24/7 schedule, and consulted with trust and safety experts to establish new processes and policies to support a growing userbase. We’ve resumed sending out daily invites to the waitlist, which is where the majority of users already on Bluesky received their invites. For those who don’t know someone personally with an invite code, the waitlist is the fastest way to receive a code, though please be patient as we work through the list. "

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Post by jader201 »

AlexandrB wrote: post #20

I've viewed twitter wayyyyy less (only when someone links something) since Tweetbot stopped working and I think it's been good for my mental health. A login wall will take that usage down to zero, so good news overall.

I’ve completely stopped using Twitter for the same reason. I only occasionally (once every few weeks) click a Tweet that’s shared with me.

I haven’t missed it.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by DistractionRect »

rlpb wrote: post #29
jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #7

Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"

Presumably this is because I have to download an entire JavaScript app in order to view 280 bytes of tweet.

They want your location, contacts, and a profile they can associate with habits/traffic so they can better serve you ads... I mean, tweets

It's the same with reddit, the user is the product, which is why they don't want you using third party apps/frontends.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by krustyburger »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #97
activitypea wrote: post #73

I just ran into this problem -- not being able to view tweets without logging in. As much as I hate Musk, this is clearly the trajectory of all platforms. Without a unified push towards self-hosting or the fediverse, the internet as we know it is over :(

Been over for a long time. We've had a lot of consolidation into Reddit (which, you can browse mostly anonymously, it will just beg you to death to log in unless you use the old site); and we've also had a mountain of consolidation into Discord (the most unsearchable system ever designed). People stopped hosting their own forums. Frankly, it's hard to not see why. The constant spam and people avoiding bans wasn't hel…

Reddit is under no obligation to continue supporting the old site.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by clouddrover »

teddyh wrote: post #76

Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at https://twitter.com/HNStatus >. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.

> Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon

And he just as famously went crawling back to Twitter. He's too addicted to quit it.

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