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.

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Maybe users will stop posting link to this site now that a lot of people can’t see it.

    I see this as a plus.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Walled gardens are not a plus, no matter how much you might want to watch something wilt and die, restricting access to information doesn’t help you nor I.

      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It’s good because open platforms will grow, this is how reddit got there. Actually this is how they all seem to start before greed takes over.

      • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        No one should use Twitter for news and information considering how poorly it fights fakenews.

        If you wanna share something, use the actual source.

    • axtualdave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think we’re reaching that point in the technology cycle where the money people have finally realized that running a social media platform is essentially unprofitable. People absolutely loathe ads and go to extremes to block them, and legislative and regulatory controls are starting to squeeze the manipulative aspects of social media such that what few ads the platforms can serve aren’t as relevant anymore, and the data they collect from their users is protected in more and more jurisdictions.

      So they’re bailing on the open platform idea. They’re slapping paywalls up, putting things behind required-accounts, and trying to build a walled garden they can control.

      I wish them the best. I remember what happened to Prodigy, CompuServer, and AOL.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know if I should be laughing or crying. It’s readily apparent that Musk and Spez don’t understand their product. Like, at all. Governments, politicians, NGOs, and businesses use Twitter because of the broad audience. It works as a platform for announcements because anyone can access it.

    Locking it down to only Twitter users kills this. It isn’t going to help ad revenue either to reduce the audience.

    I saw some people say this was a tech issue and not a policy change, and that better be the case if Twitter wants to survive. They lose their last competitive advantage otherwise.

    • JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My theory is that they are being sneaky and this is a trial to see how it will affect Twitter if they only made it to registered users. That is why they are calling it a “tech” issue. What a bunch of bollocks. This way they can backdown if they see a negative impact by claiming that they “fixed” the issue.

    • Vipsu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Many of the services are ran by huge companies that are simply running out of ways to grow. This makes them try to gain more out of existing user base often through questionable ways.

      Same thing has been happening for the game industry as well with premium games now having season passes, battle passes, gambling, micro transactions and online only requirements.

      [edit] corrected duplicate mention of season passes, intention was to mention battle pass instead.

      • MercuryUprising@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yep, every company requires quarterly growth and hitting KPIs, so a bunch of assholes with no moral qualms about it will fuck everything to get higher bonuses.

        Its also why everything is subscription based these days.

    • wtf_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
      02·
      1 year ago

      twitter is the perfect place to have a screenshot of something you said in 2010 be put on blast so a bunch of college kids can scream about it and demand your corporation fires you

  • With_Teeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    where were you when nitter die

    i was at home shitposting on /g/ when phone ring

    “nitter is kil”

    “no”

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I can’t wait for this stubborn jackass to kill off twitter to the point it becomes an unrecoverable decline.

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I never understood the appeal. I have friends that send me random twitter links and I’m like I don’t understand wtf I’m looking at, it’s difficult to tell who is talking to whom, and whatever it was isn’t funny or interesting to begin with. I don’t care what chucklefart69 has to say about a famous person. If I want to read the news, I’ll read the news. I’m ok with not knowing about a major event breaking within the first 5 minutes of it happening.

    • Matdan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It basically is, free API was culled destroying many apps and sites that scraped data from Twitter. So many glitches and bugs mean it’s easy to get banned.

      You get temporarily blocked if you follow more than a couple accounts in a short time and basically anything. So much anti-vax rubbish and crazy people forced onto my feed. Blocking too many of those gets you temp locked out.

      Now this login screen and I’m struggling to see how anyone can find it useful. My work still insists though.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      the only way mastodon will ever get a chance, and even then, it’s gonna be an uphill battle. even with zero competition, mastodon will struggle. Because its name fucking sucks. Dear gods. Who in their right fucking mind names a social media service after an ungainly lumbering beast that is world renowned for being EXTINCT.

      Maybe if they renamed the whole thing to something like “trunky”, a bright and bouncy name like that might actually stick. Meanwhile, an elephant never forgets, etc. The unfortunate connection to the american conservative faction’s mascot might still be a stumbling block, but it’s not nearly as big a problem as it being currently called “mastodon”.

  • sven@l.mchome.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is pretty terrible really. Governments, cities, states use twitter for alerts and news. Now I have to agree to be tracked and monetized to view information from my government. I think everyone needs to write to all your cities, states, schools, law enforcement etc and demand they stop using twitter for anything. Our taxes should not go to padding twitter’s wallets.

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Now that Twitter has become what it is, I’m somewhat offended that my local government makes announcements on it. Hopefully this will be an impetus for them to stop… although many agencies use Facebook too, and FB and IG have been this way for years.

      • tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy is exactly what government bodies need. Anyone from other instances can see, vote and comment. They can limit sign up to only employees and their users immediately have an official seal of authenticity. @obama@whitehouse.gov would be so cool.

        • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I would prefer @potus@44.whitehouse.gov so that it makes it easier to defederate from extreme right wing presidents if, god forbid, they get in power again.

          Also for archival purposes.

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They absolutely should be setting up lemmy or mastodon as official announcement sites. That would be a perfect platform.
          I think they also want to be on twitter, fb etc for the distribution potential though.

  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Seems like a big moment in what the internet will be.

    Early on the internet thrived on being open. Lots of amazing builders embodied the idea of open source collaborative environments and the website’s other people built on their infrastructure and tech followed those principles.

    Now we’re in a new era. The business class saw how popular these spaces and communities were and bought them out. Now were in a place were they lock everything up, force scarcity fucking it all up

  • KrapKake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Reddit… And now Twitter can go right into the garbage. Not using the stupid official app and I am not making a Twitter account. Nope.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Well if that’s the case Twitter is as dead to me.

        Spez has talked about how he’s trying to model Reddit on Musk’s “success” with Twitter.

        It would be hilarious if Musk set up Spez to take the publicity fall to cover Musk’s plan to force Twitter for authenticated consumption only.

        • Augustiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Why does there always have to be a secret play involved with musk? Can’t they just both be incompetent at leading a social media company? This is just another example of Hanlon‘s Razor…

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as “yes”.

  • Talos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Omg, I went to twitter.com and it requires a login now. That’s the end of that, I guess. Most people aren’t going to sign up to see a random sentence written by some person that was linked to by some random website.

      • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I just checked a random news article and embedded tweets seem to be working still. But when you click the tweet you get taken to the login page.

        • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know why they bother embedding tweets. They always quote the tweet anyway, so you end up reading the same bit twice.