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.

  • partial_accumen
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    411 year ago

    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.

    • @Augustiner
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      281 year ago

      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…

      • @AbidanYre
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        181 year ago

        People have a hard time with the fact that the richest man in the world isn’t a genius.

      • Aviandelight
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        31 year ago

        Maybe not a secret play but definitely a dick move by Elon that surely benefits him.

    • @zeppo
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      131 year ago

      Twitter is way more prominent than reddit. I doubt that there’s a secret plan

      If anything, Splez is too dense to notice that Musk seems to be intentionally/unintentionally ruining Twitter. It’s really hard to imagine how someone could look at “ad revenue down 70%” and think wow, that’s what we need to emulate!