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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So are all social media companies racing to the bottom?
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.
Always have been
Why does the internet seem to just continue getting shittier
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.
Corporate greed and commercialisation of everything. Welcome to the dystopian hellhole we live in
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.
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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.
Some EU agencies are already on top of this. They host a Mastodon instance under the actual EU top-level domain name to make it actually verifiably official. https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission
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.
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.govwould be so cool.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.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.
As much as I hate the idea of Yet Another Social Media App, I kind of wish there was some sort of official government-specific platform that was only available to state/local/federal government(s) or organizations for making important announcements. No memberships required (other than posters or commenters), no likes, upvotes, or retweeting or whatever, just postings of information that people can get to from anywhere. Something completely untied from any corporate entities.
They could easily have their own websites based on Mastodon or Lemmy, not federated with anything.
Or just use RSS.
The enshittification continues. Cannot believe they are taking a page out of Pinterest, of all places.
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.
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.
No one should use Twitter for news and information considering how poorly it fights fakenews.
If you wanna share something, use the actual source.
I can’t wait for this stubborn jackass to kill off twitter to the point it becomes an unrecoverable decline.
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.
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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.
where were you when nitter die
i was at home shitposting on /g/ when phone ring
“nitter is kil”
“no”
Same here. I only browse, so I don’t have an account and I don’t plan on making one. This sucks.
Idk, it’s given me a good reason to not load it
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.
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.
Fuck Twitter. Garbage anyway.
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
Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.
It’s pretty wild. Users are inherently lazy. Give a decent product where you can have a positive ROI on user engagement and sit back to rake it in.
But actively be hostile to users and they are fickle as can be.
I was on Reddit for 16 years with over 100k karma.
And I’ve deleted the app I was using for it which they broke and switched app and habits over to Lemmy in less than 24 hours.
Nothing like hubris with a dash of greed to ensure success for one’s competition.
I thought Twitter had always required a sign in. I’ve never had a Twitter account so I’m always locked out.
Lol, same
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.
Are all the news articles with embedded tweet widgets busted now?
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.
I don’t know why they bother embedding tweets. They always quote the tweet anyway, so you end up reading the same bit twice.
Is there a way to control the image size?
Good question, I have no idea. I wasn’t even sure this was going to post. I just pasted the images in from the clipboard.
darn
