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On this moment you'll need an account to view anything on the platform..

Every day the bird dies a little more

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not what paywalled means.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's why the "quotes" 😉

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Beautiful plumage.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

The good ol' loginwall that social media sites have been moving to for a few years. Meta is also guilty of this... making it almost impossible to check out anything without a login.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Just a reminder that nitter exists, which lets you browse twitter without needing an account, from a minimal ui and having everything proxied through the instance of choice for privacy. You can use the libredirect firefox addon to automatically redirect twitter (& optionally other services like youtube/reddit, etc to its frontend like nitter).

You can view a list of instances here.

edit: ... wow it looks like nitter's also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Shit filtered through a fine cloth is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Works now, though I don't know what nitter.net's method of obtaining Tweet data is, and wouldn't be terribly surprised if Twitter intends to crack down on that, sooner or later.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@stux good. now we can really pressure public services to move from it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Good, I don‘t want to see it anyway and the less people use it the better for the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's frustrating, but I'm betting it won't last. With all the people who only visit twitter via links from other sites (or those embedded tweets in news articles), doing something like this will cause twitter's page traffic to suddenly implode. Which will cause their advertisement impression statistics to implode. Which will make their paying advertisers explode. And then twitter will roll it back.

Unless, of course, Elongated Muskrat is intentionally and purposefully trying to completely remove twitter from existence. In which case, this is a pretty clever move.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@stux
@MissingThePt
I'm now expecting Elon Jr. (Spaz) to do the same on Reddit because Elon is his idol and mentor.

I wish there was an option on #DuckDuckGo to exclude search results that point to Twitter since I can no longer read them. It's now just clutter in the search results.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and nothing of value was lost. . .

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It isn't a paywall if you can make a free account to access it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

"loginwalled" then. We know what he means.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@stux As I said on Mastodon: it probably is another “bug” that plagues Twitter since… “this guy” put his hands on it. It could be fixed soon because of the ruckus it will certainly make.

For now, you can still use Nitter instead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh no!

Anyway...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh lovely, another loginwall...

You only have to login, but what if I don't want an account with you just to read what someone's put on there?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you browse Twitter without an account you're probably not part of the problem.
A friend ran in to this today when trying to check if a service provider was having technical issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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