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.
So are all social media companies racing to the bottom?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.gov
would be so cool.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.
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 thought Twitter had always required a sign in. I’ve never had a Twitter account so I’m always locked out.
Lol, same
I can’t wait for this stubborn jackass to kill off twitter to the point it becomes an unrecoverable decline.
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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
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
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.
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.
Why does the internet seem to just continue getting shittier
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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Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?
That’s what I’m experiencing. Every tweet and even going to the main url results in a redirect to a log in splash page.
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.
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…
People have a hard time with the fact that the richest man in the world isn’t a genius.
It’s not a suggestion. It’s what they’re doing right now.
My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as “yes”.