Whenever Twitter asked me to login, I’d close the tab. Good luck, Elon!
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#222Musk 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!"
What he means is "we can't deal with a regular amount of traffic because we fired most people, also we don't know the value of SEO"
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#223https://nitter.cz/ , from the Czech collective NoLogz, has a statement in place of the error message: | | "Nitter.cz is not working, just like all other Nitter instances. The reason is Twitter blocking all access to it's content without login. We are sorry, but there is nothing we can do about it right now and we are not sure if the situation will change in the future. Don't trust corporations, especially those where…
If they're able to make the switch to one of the big Mastadon instances it might be a fun way to bite your thumb.
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#224I’m guessing they’ll still let google crawl it, maybe cache: will be a passable workaround.
Does Internet Archive capture twitter content? If so how will all of these changes impact them?
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#225This 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 internet started to suck a long time ago, but today was a red letter day. Reddit's been circling the drain for years, but today is the day it truly crossed a line for millions of people at once (They killed Apollo and RIF). Twitter's been getting rapidly worse since Musk bought it, but this is another red line. We're not even allowed to talk about the influence of bots and astroturfers here. A popular post today…
I just opened up RIF to see it was dead. I knew it was coming but I wasn't ready for it. How infuriating.
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#226This 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. :(
At this point even "Truth Social" is looking less bad
Don't hold your breath, its tale of mismanagement is long and sordid.
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#227Musk 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!"
"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.
What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674898695534309378
"1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C.
2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a laundromat.
3. We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now."
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#228Do reddit next! Everybody's productivity will be through the roof
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#229remember like 1/2 a year ago when they removed the sign in prompt entirely... lol
we've come full circle
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( Totally! The internet was better before pay walls / auth walls. I get why we're here today, and I get that the last phase was just about acquiring an audience, and getting people hooked, and now this part of getting everyone to pay was always the plan, but this part really does suck. Just feels like all the services lined up to start shitting on users at the same…
I remember seeing a documentary way back in 2000 about the internet that said something like "the internet is freely accessible now, but some people believe eventually pay walls will begin to block access to more and more portions of the internet." And I thought how ridiculous, that will never happen, information wants to be free! Well, looks like I was only partially right. Most access is still "free", but at the co…
Information wants to be free, but information is power. And some people want to hoard all the power for themselves.