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Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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#193This 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. :(
To paraphrase Gilmore, “the net interprets [mandatory login and other access fuckery] as censorship and routes around it”
If Twitter locks out more readers, people will stop posting and move elsewhere. If Reddit ejects the mods that made it successful, communities will evolve elsewhere.
The forest will regrow and different paths will form, routing around the dying patches.
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#194Guess I'll just be checking it less often then. I have a Twitter account but don't like to be logged in on my phone and potentially leaking location data.
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#195> Musk — who is no longer CEO of Twitter, but still deeply involved in operations — may also be motivated by a desire to prevent AI tools from searching Twitter.
This seems very unlikely. If they really just wanted to stop just AI tools from searching twitter, it would be very easy to prevent them from doing it at scale by imposing basic rate limiting and device intelligence (or even something like the puzzle LinkedIn makes you solve before viewing someone's profile while not logged in).
I'm very confused as to why they may not want unlogged-in human lurkers who are still seeing and clicking on ads when on the Twitter website.
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#196Google still manages to show recent tweets. I wonder if twitter lets it through by checking the user agent.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
What happened to vBulletin by Jelsoft? Needs to be open sourced.
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#198This 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'm cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Anyone can spin up an instance, so it's decentralized, but instances are connected, so there's community.
It may still be rough around the edges, but to me it feels like the spirit of the old phpBB forums combined with almost 20 years of lessons learned from Reddit.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
PhpBB is GPLv2, and it still works just fine. Discourse is also GPL, if you’re looking for a more modern look. There are a number of others too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...)
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#200Looks like they even blocked the Google crawler for individual accounts. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:twitter.com sort by last hour.