@stux Big day for Nitter instances https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances
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Twitter: You need to turn off two-factor authentication because we put that behind a paywall.
Twitter: You need an account to view content now.
These two things combined just mean I'm not going to be looking at Twitter content, period. I refuse to disable 2FA and make my account less secure, so I just logged out. By logging out, I now am unable to view content. Twitter's slowly doing everything they can to kill off the efficacy of corporate messaging on their platform, huh?
Edit for all those who where worried about a "misleading title"🧡
It actually started to work for me without account when Elon bought it. Maybe it's geographical, you're not only person who says that.
It makes me really happy to see these ass-CEOs destroying their shitty platforms and making people consider moving to the Fediverse :)
@stux
That’s like having to pay a cover charge to see 80 year old strippers.
I guess some would still do that 🤷
It's a terrible decision, but I think they just couldn't keep the servers up for the average user because of the "optimizations". People look for news on Telegram anyway nowadays.
Fine by me.
I tried to stop giving Twitter any clicks at all some time ago, but it didn't always work because so many people insist on linking it on other sites, so I'd occasionally end up giving Twitter a click inadvertently.
Now that'll just take me to a login page that I'll back out of.
Turning the internet into walled gardens was always their plan. Kill everything open and free, force everyone into their controlled spaces, then flood them with ads and noise. That was the plan from day one.
It's really sad. They NEVER would have gotten anywhere if the internet was what they want it to be. Had the internet started as a bunch of closed spaces, the early sites would have monopolies on communication and we wouldn't have had near as incredible a tech explosion as we had. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, none of them would have existed.
The era of open internet is coming to a close, unless the people choose to force it open.
@stux apparently twitter didn’t think of what would happen if they redirected incorrect and twitter ddosed themselves early this morning I guess its time for the fireworks.
It's almost like Elon wanted to help push twitter users as well as the reddit exodus to lemmy
Between this, reddit apps going down today, and YouTube coming out and saying they are implementing a 3 strikes and you're out policy on using adblockers. The internet got a lot shittier really fast.
Hold up, what's this about this three strikes adblocker shit?
Yep. It's apparently being tested for some users. If you use an ad blocker, youtube will tell you that you have 3 videos you can watch without ads before they block you from watching anything, until you remove adblock.
...Let the arms race begin again
I only used the site to check for announcements from people or companies and now that's gone. I presume quite a few people will now realise that they have less of an audience (and presumably search engine rankings will drop) and consider alternatives.
Ahh shit.
My rss feed doesn't return anything today and I thought it's nitter's issue.
@stux Well, I don't mind. If I wanted to see something there, I'd use Nitter. At least my friend won't be sending me links to twitter anymore.