• Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Needing to log in to view someones tweets means now I wont even visit the site when linked. Kinda the number 1 rule of platforms is to make them accessible to those that don’t already use it, so as to convert them later. Musk, and everyone around him letting these decisions run through, are idiots

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      ran into this last night.

      I hate twitter, but there was something I was trying to see and the only way to get the info was from a twitter post. Couldnt view the goddamn twitter post without creating an account and logging in.

      My immediate thought was “This isnt important enough for this bullshit” and immediately gave up.

      I’m convinced this login to view shit is to hide the explosion of right wing white supremacy/racism/etc posts and the bots echoing and amplifying it from people before they commit themselves to an account.

      • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Login to view started before Musk took over, FYI. I distinctly remember avoiding Twitter to spite them in those days.

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            8 months ago

            It did. I don’t remember when, but Twitter was getting hard and harder to access without an account before Musk. It might have been one of those Rolling Release things so everyone didn’t notice at once or something.

            In the beginning, Twitter even had an RSS feed for accounts you could subscribe to. When it shifted to nagging be for login, I installed a nitter addon and that that’s broken, I haven’t been there since.