0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bitman 14 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: [Opinion] Please stop sharing Twitter and Youtube links. tech
Regarding Twitter, I share your frustration; however, good news it seems Twitter was only walled off from people without accounts for a few days. You can still use your bookmarks in a browser (or use a FOSS app) to keep up with those journalists if you use any variant of the Nitter URL (i.e. nitter.fdn.fr nitter.it etc) and still do this without an account!
The only restriction that still applies is that anon users can't search within each feed anymore.
Just in case you've enjoyed Reddit and think that's off bounds to view anonymously - you can still use Redreader from Github or F-droid sources.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte OP 14 Jul 2023
He said he will stop this time
The mentality of domestic abuse.
It's over. We've seen this cycle before, if not even before the internet. These platforms serve evil now. Divest.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ae52f929c 14 Jul 2023
The only thing logged out accounts can view are individual tweets. I cannot view timelines or even navigate for the context of a tweet if its apart of a thread. It is 100% still walled off to logged out accounts and this is easy to verify.
Nitter does appear to work for now. The frustrating thing is I switched from Nitter links back to Twitter links because just after Elon took over, Nitter was only able to pull information randomly. The API would just fail. This works for now though so that is good news.
Reddit does work because subreddit feeds are technically not an API request, so even things like Reddit is fun still works logged out. But Reddit did disable the ability to view NSFW subreddits outside of their website and official app so a bunch of content is walled off even if you are able to use a third party client.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 14 Jul 2023
I cannot view timelines or even navigate for the context of a tweet if its apart of a thread
Maybe I've got a crazy setup (browser, vpn, no java, no cookies, tracking queries removed) but on Nitter when I click on the red 'show this thread' the whole thread still shows up. Dunno why...
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...but I'm okay with that.
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