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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 :(
They have become an anti-thesis of freedom that was promised when World-wide-web emerged.
First Twitter API, then Reddit API, so today Apollo and many more Reddit clients shut down, and now Nitter. :-(
I'm happy Lemmy is kind of taking off. I think it's helped more than Mastodon because it's less realtime/feed focused and slower paced. It also doesn't require you to form a friend circle to benefit. Instead, the community is waiting for you already. You just sign up on an instance and add your communities. Done. This helped me a lot, together with sites like https://sub.rehab
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.
Weirdly, Twitter had started becoming so unreliable for me for several months prior (frequently not loading, video rarely working) that my click-through rate on Twitter links was already diminishing. But looks like it’s 0% from here on out.
Looks like Twitter was officially evicted out of their Boulder office today. Had a fire sale on furniture out on the street, at least until the Sheriff seemed to stop employees from going into the building anymore.