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  • I think it's good, I think only Twitter blue people should be able to read tweets.

    • Don't give Elon ideas

      • seems like a great idea to me! everyone will rush to mastodon because this one actually costs them money and not just ideals and their soul which they have no use for right this second!

  • Noticed that as well, guess twitter will become much less linked to in the future?

    • For sure! And what about all those embedded Tweets in news articles?

      • I was on a news site yesterday that had an embed that asked if I wanted to see Twitter content or not. And I was like, "Why would I need to see and give views to a Tweet that you're describing in this article? NOPE." And opted out. It was great. I hope more sites do this in the future

    • Seriously, Elon is speedrunning the destruction of twitter

  • The 30th of June 2023 will forever be known as enshittification day.

    • In Dream SMP canon terms (no offense to that series, though), that'll be L'Manburg's Doomsday.

  • This is just going to speed the growth of Twitter alternatives like Mastodon, which is great, but it's sad to see such a once-innovative, widely-used platform degrade to this level of shittiness. All because of a deranged wealthy idiot with an unchecked ego. This was a communication platform, FFS!

  • They've been soft locking content behind a login for a while, I guess they're going for the full thing now. Very annoying

  • It's not surprising. Other sites have been this way for ages, and they all seem to be in a struggle with one another to out-shit their beds.

  • So maybe this is how I'll give up the habit of scrolling through social media on phone. They all just lock themselves in with all the ads goodness, I guess it's good for some of us.

  • Mastodon has already become viable. I switched when there was court decision that Musk had to buy twitter and deleted my account there. At that time Mastodon was ghosttown - posts related to US were very very few and refreshing the page after a minute gave handful of posts. It changed as it achieved critical mass. By that time I had gotten used to mastodon which is not very user friendly and is different from twitter. Kbin/lemmy are much similar to reddit in that regard.

    Now it does the main thing twitter did for me - telling me the news - what is happening around and what others think about that. And it is much better than twitter which was mostly clickbait. It lacks in terms of depth on specific topics, but general topics are there - though you have to know how to curate those.

  • I just tried to access it and I get redirection errors. I guess they didn’t account for integration testing during their most recent sprint.

  • I'm pessimistic that this will actually change much, or drive users to Mastodon. Just like, as much as I've been loving my time with Kbin/Lemmy, I don't think people are ever going to leave Reddit. Most people appear to have a way, WAY higher bullshit tolerance than I do. It's sad. The old guard are unusable, and the new options are withering on the vine.

  • Why dont ppl just post a screenshot of a tweet instead of linking it, same with reddit posts ?

    • I really like being able to confirm that something isn't made up or blown out of proportion, being able to quickly check stuff like 'how many people even agree with this take (a lot of times people leave out the engagement of a post)' and 'is this a genuine person in the first place (check out their profile or other posts)' to not poison discourse with made-up issues
      That said, as others in this thread have pointed to, libdirect should be encouraged so they can discourage traffic to the actual site
      e: though nitter sadly seems to be out of commission for new tweets, rip

    • There are accessibility concerns with doing that, if the poster doesn't provide alt-text. Images are basically unreadable to the vision impaired.

  • Absolutely wonderful. I love looking at art on Discord, opening the tweet to get the high res pic to save (Yes, I'm aware of adding ?format=jpg&name=large at the end of the URL, already had to do it for some pics), then being blocked. Or trying to see some sports news, then being blocked again.

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