That’s not what paywalled means.

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.

@stux

and nothing of value was lost. . .

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..

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

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.

@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.

Oh no!

Anyway...

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.

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?

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.

@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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

I'm trying to use Nitter and it doesn't seem to be working. Is there any other way to view tweets without making an account? I refuse to be on twitter, but like to see what people are talking about.

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

Stop going to Twitter for anything.

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.

And now the wall is back down.

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 I got out in time :)

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

@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.

Ahh shit.

My rss feed doesn't return anything today and I thought it's nitter's issue.

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.

@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.

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