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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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It bothered from the other angle when POTUS started pushing Twitter as an important channel to keep up on what was going on because it's hardly ideal for that. My local government has similarly been making Nextdoor a de facto requirement if you want to know what's happening or want to give feedback (especially in an era of frequent town office closures). I tend to favor minimal government but I think the USPS was an…

For what it’s worth, you can sign-up through DMAChoice to stop receiving junk mail [1]. It takes a few months after you sign up to really take effect, but it has easily eliminated 90% of the mail I used to receive. Well worth it IMO for the $2 fee every 10 years . https://www.dmachoice.org/register.php

There are a number of other options.

You can mark mail "rejected" and return it to the delivery box or any post box.

https://refuseyourmail.cooperjr.name/how-to

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...

First-class mail can be returned to sender:

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Return-to-Sender-Mail

Title 39, United States Code, Section 3008 authorizes the Postal Service™ to issue a prohibitory order against a mailer who sends you an advertisement offering to sell any matter that you, in your own discretion, believe to be “erotically arousing or sexually provocative.” You can request the order by completing the relevant portion of PS Form 1500, Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order, and submitting it to any Post Office™. The form is available at your local Post Office. Thirty days after receiving the order, the mailer is prohibited from sending you any further mail. Violating this prohibition makes the mailer subject to court enforcement action by the United States Government.

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub307/welcome.htm

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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post #84

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Which is not reassuring considering their past abuse of phone numbers provided for allegedly only security reasons. [0] [0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally...

Just use a verification service like https://sms4sats.com

Twitter is not listed there for my region. So no, I can't just throw some sats at this problem.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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On top of it, it's not just a matter of creating an account because they get blocked within two minutes until you also give them your phone number, despite the registration pretends it's not required (because once you signed up, it's easier to trick people into giving up yet more information than asking for it upfront).

You can remove your phone number easily under account settings. This trickery is still a very effective way to get phone information for masses of people, but on the individual level, it's possible to avoid.

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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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post #126

Do they whitelist accounts of public officials? For instance, having the POTUS account behind an auth wall seems like a horrible practice.

The POTUS relying on a commercial entity to communicate with the public seems like a more fundamental horrible practice.

It is older than the Republic.

Heads of state have spoken through commercial publications since printing existed. Roughly 1550.

Online Internet services merely happen to be the present iteration of this.

(I'm not saying that the practice isn't without its problems. I'm saying it's nothing new.)

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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post #20

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I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

The day they turn off old.reddit.com reddit is dead to me. I've been on reddit 10 years and it was hard to understand why they chose this new disastrous design.

It isn't hard for me to understand their reasoning at all;

1. Appeals more to the mainstream, and to new users who are used to Facebook-style feeds. 2. Easier for them to disguise ads in user's feeds.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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post #122

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I just want to be able to occasionally read a few tweets with no required login or account. Just the same with Instagram and similar, I just won't use it and I'll forget about it. I guess Twitter is next. No, I've never had a Twitter account. I don't have a Facebook account.

I don't think Twitter cares that you won't use it. They've almost certainly weighed the cost of a tiny portion of people caring vs a massive reduction in bots.

The rule of thumb is that 99% of users are lurkers. Since more and more people are privacy focused and it's clear that forcing lurker to register is not in their best interest they obviously miscalculated.

Reddit, Qora and Pinterest all tried it, shot themselves in the foot, lost a huge readership and reversed it or will reverse it.

It's hard to realise how bad it is as only lurker don't have a sunk cost fallacy and easily quit and their quitting is invisible.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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I'm beginning to seriously believe the general population doesn't deserve services like Twitter and giving it to them was a mistake. When something can be had so easily there is no respect for it. A lack of respect for the technology and a lack of thoughtfulness into its implications have caused a lot of harm. The hope of the internet was that it would increase communication and understanding. But nobody is communica…

If this is your takeaway you’re following toxic people. I have learned a lot and changed my mind on several issues just from Twitter discourse.

My point isn't that meaningful conversation is impossible on twitter. Its that the majority isn't and most abuse the gift of an instant global platform. Its tragedy of the commons on an unprecedented scale.

Of course there are worthwhile interactions to be made. But the people making them would have been doing so on the less accessible older internet anyways.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Just turn JavaScript off for Twitter to “solve” the issue.

For those unaware: this prevents tweets from showing at all.

I do this as a reminder-on-steroids to only access Twitter via third-party interfaces --- Nitter, Threadreader, or various Mastodon-Twitter gateways.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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How will this work with embedded tweets?

As with any pusher: the first one's free.

For now, at least, you can view the initial tweet. Expanding a thread fails with the registration wall.

My view is that embeds / hotlinks were a Bad Idea for many other reasons (see the porn that's started appearing on old news and government sites due to hotlinked content). It trades a modicum of short-term convenience for major long-term risk.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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post #473

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The problem with old.reddit.com (as opposed to teddit) is that numerous links on Reddit will redirect you to the New experience. Absent DNS hacks, you'll find yourself consistently frustrated by this. With Teddit, AFAIU the rewrites will keep you on Teddit rather than bouncing from old (or i) to www.reddit.com. Mind, Reddit shoud GDIAF. The growth hacking crap has also broken my own usage habit. I'll check in periodi…

With RES I've never seen new reddit, everything always goes to old.reddit.com

Not all browsers support extensions. Even those that do may support only a subset.

(Mobile most especially.)

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