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Offline Siwastaja

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2023, 02:54:55 pm »
But that was the case for many years? I mean, that's literally the reason proxy services like nitter existed. When Elon bought Twitter they removed this bullcrap but it seems it didn't last long. Now going back to good old bullshit seems to upset people like it's Elon Musk's new invention? How short is your memory? Or is there something I'm missing?
 
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2023, 03:18:28 pm »
OK, I guess I won't use Twitter then.

Why? Twitter is the webpage that makes the most sense to have an account on, since there are no threads or topics but mixed user tweets, so it is useful to have an account that follows the users you are interested in.
Also besides showing the users you follow it has "recommended for you" posts which may increase the users with related topics you follow.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2023, 03:36:57 pm »
Some time ago, you could read some tweets and after ~5 tweets you were asked for a login to continue reading.
But you could always click "Login" on that pop-up and then a login window would appear, which you could just close to continue reading. I used twitter for reading without feeling any limitation without an account.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2023, 05:05:22 pm »
No, I don't want to be a twittery twat!  :box:

 :-// Like I care that you use twitter or not
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #29 on: June 30, 2023, 05:54:45 pm »
Just say no to Twitter.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2023, 06:01:38 pm »
Fine with me, hopefully it will reduce the amount of noise in my web searches. As it stands I have never intentionally clicked on a link to Twitter but every now and then something is indexed in a search and I end up there. I tried Twitter once briefly 10+ years ago and found zero redeeming qualities, the echo chambers and tribalism have been a significant detriment to society and I sincerely hope that Musk is successful in its demise, despite that likely not being his intent.
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2023, 06:13:13 pm »
I rarely used in the past to post but I don't mind since Husky MUCK has taken over it.

If it requires a sign in to view stuff I find on the search engines I'll add it to my excluded list of clickbait trolling websites like when searching on Google:

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https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-"twitter.com"+-"quora.com"+-"scribd.com"+-"experts-exchange.com"+-"pinterest.com"+-"pinterest"+-"192.com"
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2023, 06:16:05 pm »
But you could always click "Login" on that pop-up and then a login window would appear, which you could just close to continue reading. I used twitter for reading without feeling any limitation without an account.

I never figured that out. Having no account, it never crossed my mind to click "login"  |O

I found it easier to google "twitter proxy" or something and start using one of the many. Just do this.
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2023, 07:10:09 pm »
No, I don't want to be a twittery twat!  :box:

 :-// Like I care that you use twitter or not

You mean like no one cares if you care?   :=\
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2023, 07:10:56 pm »
Some time ago, you could read some tweets and after ~5 tweets you were asked for a login to continue reading.
But you could always click "Login" on that pop-up and then a login window would appear, which you could just close to continue reading. I used twitter for reading without feeling any limitation without an account.

Didn't work for me.  I just get a page telling me how great Twitter is if I'm a member.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #35 on: June 30, 2023, 07:25:06 pm »
Didn't work for me.  I just get a page telling me how great Twitter is if I'm a member.
It used to work before the change, now they disabled that.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2023, 07:53:19 pm »
Ah, yes. Impossible to read tweets without being logged in now.
That's an odd decision.
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #37 on: June 30, 2023, 08:16:49 pm »
Elon tweeted that it's a temporary measure due to excessive bot activity
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #38 on: June 30, 2023, 08:27:03 pm »
I call BS on that one. How do people without accounts contribute to the bot activity?

More likely he wanted to nudge people that are hooked on twitter to make an account to make numbers look better.

But it is obvious that it is a short-term thing regardless.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #39 on: June 30, 2023, 08:27:37 pm »
Service was slower than normal that’s true
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #40 on: June 30, 2023, 08:30:42 pm »
It is slow because he broke stuff and fired everyone who could fix it.

This is the part that comes after "see, he fired everyone and twitter still works". This is the part where it slowly degrades.
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #41 on: June 30, 2023, 08:54:21 pm »
There are always alternative frontend websites for twitter, nitter for example, if you really need to see updates someone has posted then you type their username in to one such frontend and can see their tweets listed.

I tend to agree with much of what Musk has done, his anti-censorship stance is fairly nice*, as was the principle of sacking masses of corporate box tickers... but if he thinks making viewing tweets a login-only action is a wise idea, then he will destroy the usefulness and user-counts of the platform that he payed so much to buy. Twitter isn't much use for much really, but the whole idea for anyone who does use it is to be able to share quick messages with vast numbers of people online and direct them to webpages where the twitter poster has their actual full-length articles/videos/content/.... It is supposed to be "micro-blogging", not "social media" and where "social media" is all about having conversational** two-way interactions with other users with accounts, "micro-blogging" is a one way means of getting links widely shared. Nobody will be interested in sharing links only with the small number of logged-in users, people who want to post things on twitter want the maximum possible numbers to see them, and that means mostly people browsing past and following other links who can't be bothered to waste time setting up a twiter account.

*it would be nicer if he meant full anti-censorship rather than the position of "free speech within law" where twitter holds out against politicians on-the-moment speeched, but backs down to a government which ticks a few more boxes, shuffles some extra papers and signs censorship in to legislation
**we all know that very little of it is coherent enough to be considered a conversation any more, but the idea was there, at some point in history, perhaps
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #42 on: June 30, 2023, 08:56:48 pm »
I understand the Musketeer is funding on his own Fox News compliant AI entity called TruthGPT

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #43 on: June 30, 2023, 08:59:06 pm »
I noticed the inability to view tweets or even view profiles earlier this morning (as another lurker to the site here). Now, I simply won't bother with it anymore.

Then again, Twitter is a cesspit to begin with...
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #44 on: June 30, 2023, 10:25:32 pm »
It is slow because he broke stuff and fired everyone who could fix it.

This is the part that comes after "see, he fired everyone and twitter still works". This is the part where it slowly degrades.

I did think that was a strange argument.

It's a lot like saying "I stopped changing the oil in my car and it still works! Those oil changes I was doing before were a huge waste of money!"
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #45 on: July 01, 2023, 04:27:32 am »
I call BS on that one. How do people without accounts contribute to the bot activity?

Might be content scrapers (probably new fangled AI) bogging down the servers.
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #46 on: July 01, 2023, 05:10:20 am »
Elon tweeted that it's a temporary measure due to excessive bot activity

Ironic, because nobody will be able to read that tweet. :)

Edit: But of course because it's Musk, his tweets are not login-walled (perish the thought!), but still hardly anybody can read it because for many people (me included), it just returns an error attempting to access it ("something went wrong"). :-DD
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #47 on: July 01, 2023, 05:25:24 am »
yeah I just avoided a mcmaster order because they wanted some registration shit


haha the funny thing is they think that if you have a corporate card you will bother registering for their website if you can do guest check out else where. they think you will do it because you are at work. That's what I am going to do jump through another fucking hoop for some bull shit parts. whats next, I bet they wanna start quoting people for a box of screws!  :-+  :-DD  ;D

I think they are really not in touch with how employees behave. Only the people still stuck on requisition forms (efficient and pleasant business practice, I swear, I just don't understand why people stopped implementing draconian micromanagement)  :-DD ) sent to purchasing are going to do buisness with stuff that needs an account. True story.

And its like mad sad too because you think with work from home tech/finance employees, managing guest orders would be easier and cheaper. But of course instead of trying to leverage new technology to broaden business they try to pinch off perceived efficiencies to get cheaper instead of grow. How typical.

Home depot too, you gotta get some disinterested mislocated or downright absent employee (their always called to do other shit) to open up a cell to buy a tool now because of all the security shit. Like I wanna drive down there and try to wrangle that person... it comes out infinitely easier to just buy online. I think I went there like twice in the last two years, and I used to go like weekly lol
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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #48 on: July 01, 2023, 03:30:27 pm »
Reddit going the same way...and some semiconductor manufacturers too, if you want a datasheet or 3D model  |O
Reddit has been terrible in the past 2 years. Sometimes I just want to read the general opinion about something, without them tracking me. So forget about it on mobile, it will ask you to log in most of the time. They made the browsing experience terrible, where you literrally need to click every time to load new comments. And then do you want to click on a website in the mobile browser? Forces you to use their browser, no way to see the link address, no way to forward it. :-- :palm:
All these companies are doing is profiling. They are setting up your psychological profile for nefarious purposes. A study showed that after looking at 50-100 of your likes on facebook, an AI could predict your opinion better than your spouse.
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That interface is not really mobile friendly, but it will not nag you to use the app. If you actually do login (you can create a Reddit account on old.reddit.com *without* an Email Address, just skip that question) you can also force the old layout. Otherwise you might get nagged when opening reddit hosted images.

The new reddit also started to hide some features, like sorting in threads, behind the login. Also, anything marked NSFW, which is not just porn, requires a login. Or old.reddit.com.

afaict a lot of subs have now been marked NSFW because the definition have been made so broad
 

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Re: Twitter now requires login to browse tweets.
« Reply #49 on: July 01, 2023, 07:27:41 pm »
I call BS on that one. How do people without accounts contribute to the bot activity?

all the bots scraping tweets not being logged in?
 


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