Twitter is now completely "walled" (dont wanna rattle cages with a wrong title whoopsie)

That’s not what paywalled means.

And that's why the "quotes" 😉

The good ol' loginwall that social media sites have been moving to for a few years. Meta is also guilty of this... making it almost impossible to check out anything without a login.

and nothing of value was lost. . .

We can only gain! 😀

@stux good. now we can really pressure public services to move from it.

Kinda funny that sooo many links on soo many websites just redirect now

Hopefully most will now see Twitter is a sinking ship

Just a reminder that nitter exists, which lets you browse twitter without needing an account, from a minimal ui and having everything proxied through the instance of choice for privacy. You can use the libredirect firefox addon to automatically redirect twitter (& optionally other services like youtube/reddit, etc to its frontend like nitter).

You can view a list of instances here.

edit: ... wow it looks like nitter's also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip..

Shit filtered through a fine cloth is still shit.
Works now, though I don't know what nitter.net's method of obtaining Tweet data is, and wouldn't be terribly surprised if Twitter intends to crack down on that, sooner or later.
- I'd personally use a different instance rather than nitter.net btw, as the official ones gonna be slow due to everyone using it
  
  wouldn't be terribly surprised if Twitter intends to crack down on that, sooner or later
  
  im surprised they haven't implemented some sort of ip based rate limiting already, nitters been going on for years
  
  edit: ... wow it looks like nitter's also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip..

@stux
@MissingThePt
I'm now expecting Elon Jr. (Spaz) to do the same on Reddit because Elon is his idol and mentor.

I wish there was an option on #DuckDuckGo to exclude search results that point to Twitter since I can no longer read them. It's now just clutter in the search results.

@Jerry @stux @MissingThePt You can add -site:twitter.com to exclude Twitter results

Good, I don‘t want to see it anyway and the less people use it the better for the world.

It's frustrating, but I'm betting it won't last. With all the people who only visit twitter via links from other sites (or those embedded tweets in news articles), doing something like this will cause twitter's page traffic to suddenly implode. Which will cause their advertisement impression statistics to implode. Which will make their paying advertisers explode. And then twitter will roll it back.

Unless, of course, Elongated Muskrat is intentionally and purposefully trying to completely remove twitter from existence. In which case, this is a pretty clever move.

trying to completely remove twitter from existence

I expect that Twitter just wants people to install the Twitter app and get Twitter accounts.

I suppose that Reddit could do the same thing as well.

Oh no!

Anyway...

@stux Big day for Nitter instances https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

@stux As I said on Mastodon: it probably is another “bug” that plagues Twitter since… “this guy” put his hands on it. It could be fixed soon because of the ruckus it will certainly make.

For now, you can still use Nitter instead.

If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

If you browse Twitter without an account you're probably not part of the problem.
A friend ran in to this today when trying to check if a service provider was having technical issues.

Oh lovely, another loginwall...

You only have to login, but what if I don't want an account with you just to read what someone's put on there?

It isn't a paywall if you can make a free account to access it.

"loginwalled" then. We know what we means.
- "walled garden" is a term used for sites like this

Edit for all those who where worried about a "misleading title"🧡

It makes me really happy to see these ass-CEOs destroying their shitty platforms and making people consider moving to the Fediverse :)

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.

It's almost like Elon wanted to help push twitter users as well as the reddit exodus to lemmy

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?

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.

@stux
That’s like having to pay a cover charge to see 80 year old strippers.

I guess some would still do that 🤷
- @stux
  Ewww.

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.

@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.

Stop going to Twitter for anything.

It was by chance! 😃 Was reading this: https://mashable.com/article/twitter-api-elon-musk-developer-issues-apps and it had some embedded Tweets

@stux hurts just a little. No more lurking from the shadows

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.

And now the wall is back down.

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.

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.

@stux I got out in time :)

@stux Get ready for a new influx of Mastodon users!

@stux Well, I don't mind. If I wanted to see something there, I'd use Nitter. At least my friend won't send me links to twitter.

Here, lots of companies (usually semi-public, which don't want to spend money on their internal IT) use their Twitter accounts for official announcements. The bus company notifies of route outages, the local school posts news updates and administrative matters, etc. I wonder how long it will take for them to lobby the government or directly the European Commission to force Twitter to open the read mode to everyone again.

@stux@geddit.social Nice, problem solved!
Good to see Musk finally taking moderation seriously 😅