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Twitter locked behind login page. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/513993

So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.

Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related

Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Elon posted this on Twitter (quoted from an private blog since I currently have no way to access twitter):

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.

Lets hope that they lift this ban soon.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope for the opposite, this platform should die IMO

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm definitely not using this platform anymore, but Twitter being private also locks away a lot of valuable content (including government announcements, as someone mentioned).

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, we should move away from the platform and this will definitely help with that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models, that could become an issue for the fediverse as well. Our infrastructure is funded by donations and has much less performance and resiliency than big tech companies.

We might reach a point where the negative impacts on the environment caused by AI outweigh the benefits, just like it already happened with blockchains.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models

He's not genuine whatsoever. I'll believe this was the reason to lock Twitter when I see evidence of it. Remember how he wasn't going to [layoff 75% staff; block payments for utilities / rent; cancel bonuses; etc]? Troll troll troll.

[–] meldroc 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Might get to the point where anti-DDOS measures have to be used against AI scrapers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not ai's problem but applications/sites problem.

Edit: and ai will accelerate the progression of our technology and science by a crazy amount so I REALLY doubt that the impact on the environment will outweight positive impacts made by ai's.

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

It was AI the whole time, plus there is Proof of Stake crypto now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Governments should just set up a single user ActivityPub instance to broadcast their updates.

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