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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

akira2501 wrote: post #154
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. :(

> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( The internet is fine. The highly centralized businesses that built themselves on the technology are meeting their inevitable end.

If anything, nature is healing. I’ve noticed at least 1 community return to forums due to all of this (https://mholdschool.com/), and while unfortunately AFAIK there isn’t any good FLOSS software for it, it’s certainly a start.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by __loam »

jtriangle wrote: post #81
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 :(

We'll probably see a comeback once the LLM craze has blown over. So, 5-10 years

I can't wait for the verge articles waxing poetic about the untilled fields of pre-ai content.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by coffeebeqn »

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. :(

HN doesn’t really have a business model so I’m not sure how much it can be corrupted. I guess if YCombinator ever gets tired of paying the bills , but I’d imagine having a majority(?) of startup/tech employees visit your site almost daily is quite good for them in indirect ways

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Post by benburleson »

geepytee wrote: post #160
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.

>if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why That's probably close to 99% of HN users

I highly doubt that.

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Post by coldpie »

hedora wrote: post #151

Uggh. I only use twitter to follow critical (life-and-death) emergency broadcasts from our local fire department. Is there a viable alternative for them to use now that twitter is going to block most of our county’s residents?

Not really. Blue Sky is the most promising replacement I've seen, but it's just another for profit company, so it will follow the same pattern eventually. I think an official government Mastodon or similar would work, but it really needs to be something hosted by a competent IT dept (meaning federal, in the US), with strict and well considered policies (who gets an account on it?) and with massive buy-in at all levels of government. So... no. Not really.

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Post by tdeck »

A lot of local governments (public transit, police, fire department) use Twitter to provide service updates and even critical information when there's some kind of local emergency. I hope they're migrating off already but I kinda doubt it.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

j-bos wrote: post #114
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. :(

I feel the same. Had 4 twitter accounts I followed on nitter after losing my account, and now, not sure. Feels like a time of (light) mourning.

I had JUST started using Nitter’s RSS feeds. And it was so comfy avoiding all of the “algorithm” too.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by __loam »

ChatGTP wrote: post #145
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 :(

Funnily enough I always respected him for keeping it login free. I thought this was about his town / square free speech vision. Now I can never see myself going near the site again. Oh well.

I don't know how anyone can respect a man who calls a professional rescue working trying to save kids from a cave flood a pedophile. Musk has always been a piece of shit.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by zuminator »

aeyes wrote: post #93

Embed links still work and I don't see how Twitter could disable them without causing a bit more outrage. But maybe they don't even care anymore.

Is there a way to use embed links to stay abreast of a user though, as opposed to only individual tweets with predetermined urls? When you click on the embed it's just going to take you to the site to log in.
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