cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/513993

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    80•1 year ago

    And nothing of value was lost.

    That’s why the only social I used was reddit and now moved to lemmy. Because I would rather ideas rise and fall on their own merits than by the name recognition of who said them. I value ideas, not personas or brands.

    Some idiot celebrity/politician/Capitalist Sociopath says something and it gets seen by millions, not because it was worth seeing, but because a famous person said it.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      51•1 year ago

      Plenty of value was lost, a lot of news on my singularity sub were posted on twitter because for some reason people thought it’s a great decision to hold on to dying platform.

    • kokoapadoa
      7•1 year ago

      i enjoy art and because a lot of art is hosted on twitter a lot was lost to me. i never wanted an account.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      In the fire country of California it was a quick way to get updates on any wild fires that pop up or evacuations… it has its use cases, maybe not as a social media platform, but surely as a public service/news platform it has some merit.

      • KairuByteEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        And now everyone would need to create an account and log in to see those updates. Kinda defeats the purpose.

        Maybe move to some sort of RSS feed? I’m sure such a resource exists.

      • nintendiatorEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        undefined> , maybe not as a social media platform, but surely as a public service/news platform it has some merit.

        If the distribution of some emergency news and public service news is so important that you have to have it during emergencies, then it’s Too Big To Fail and must not be held by a corporation, but implemented by the government. Every service such as police, firefighters, etc, should have a public RSS or Atom service announcement.