Hopefully this is another intentional shot in the foot. 
The enshitfication of web 2.0, web 3.0 is going to be even worse.
I wonder if it is willful collusion among all the big social media sites that they are all simultaneously becoming terrible, or if they are just all reacting to similar stimuli in identical ways.
Either way, I hope they all fucking fail. Fuck SV tech companies. Fuck ad-tech. I truly hope the federated, decentralized alternatives will rise up and not experience a horrible fracturing of ecosystems. And even if they did fracture, it's still 1000x better than surrendering all info and data to a handful of SV shitheads. Those people make me regret my computer science degree. It feels tainted by association.
As an aside remark, China was so right to not allow American social media companies to dominate their online space.
i think the clock has been ticking as the increasing unviability of advertising-based business models has become clearer. if the free market actually worked they'd all give up and fuck off and we could go back to our forums, but this is The Future! they'll wring blood from the stone yet
I wonder if it is willful collusion among all the big social media sites that they are all simultaneously becoming terrible, or if they are just all reacting to similar stimuli in identical ways.
It absolutely is. They're trying to get rid of Invidious too.
Crazy how much harder it is to make a profit when money isn’t free
Twitter couldn't even do it with unlimited QE and billions of users lol
I wonder if it is willful collusion among all the big social media sites that they are all simultaneously becoming terrible, or if they are just all reacting to similar stimuli in identical ways.
i work in tech and have a NDA so i can't really get into details but a lot of this is just capitalism doing what Marx said it would do. I would say it's less wifull collaboration than its people stealing each other's terrible ideas but I could be wrong since I'm not at the level where I'd be privy to those conversations.
dunk tank in shambles. 1,000,000,000,069 chapos inconsolable
Yup, I'm so happy I deactivated my Twitter account, now I literally can't get in anymore! Deleted my 3P reddit app today too!
Twitter now needs users to sign in to view tweets | Reuters
Elon tweet...
Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!
lol did he realize that charging an obscene price for API access will make people just go through the browser?
I wonder if there's anybody left who ever disagrees with him. It's got to be the Emperor's New Clothes every single time.
My wild hunch is that he had a temper tantrum this morning and he said "Let's force everybody to sign in because..." And maybe he continued "I want to stop the scrapping!" Nobody even gently hinted to him that such a move would be beyond moronic. Also - nobody reminded him that he's technically not the CEO anymore.
And now when he sees everything is broken he tweets out that nonsense.
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A less colorful version of my story is he called up the CEO and told her to force everybody to sign in. And then she immediately did as instructed. I actually wonder what she does all day.
He’s the power behind the throne, like if Dick Cheney and George Bush’s roles were reversed
Elon also tweeted that the increased twitter data usage was caused by scraping. Bots and programs are using scraping because he restricted the access to the API.
I predicted that this would happen 6 months ago.
https://hexbear.net/comment/3211754
https://nitter.snopyta.org/ isn't working for me right now. An example error when I try to look at an account...
An error has occured in one of your routes.
Detail: jsony.nim(45) parseHook
asyncfutures.nim(389) read
asyncfutures.nim(389) read
asyncfutures.nim(389) read
asyncfutures.nim(389) read
asyncfutures.nim(389) read
asyncfutures.nim(389) read
Expected { but end reached. At offset: 0Another error I got is "No items found".
Nitter is not working for me either. I've tried multiple instances. The RSS feeds that I've set up using Nitter aren't working either.
Unless this is an unintentional bug, this is a wrap for Nitter and was probably designed to hose Nitter among other things.
Edit: I'm checking the feeds I've set up on my phone and the last tweet is from around 2pm EST, so they basically just hosed Nitter less than an hour ago.
Edit 2: Yewtu.be, a popular Invidious instance, is also down. It's probably a coincidence, but it doesn't bode well either way. Invidious is being threatened too. Mainstream social media are circling the wagons.
Edit 3: If you try to use nitter.cz, you get this message:
Nitter.cz is not working, just like all other Nitter instances. The reason is Twitter blocking all access to it's content without login.
We are sorry, but there is nothing we can do about it right now and we are not sure if the situation will change in the future.
Don't trust corporations, especially those where one egomaniac has all the power. Use open-source and community driven solutions if you can (like Mastodon).
Sincerely, NoLog.cz collective
Looks like this is the end of the line for Nitter.
Edit
RIP Nitter?
The largest news orgs in the country are saying stuff like "glitch or intentional?" Nobody knows anything. Elon's such an idiotic man-baby.
Super vague Elon tweet - https://hexbear.net/comment/3579544
I would assume this would actually hurt Twitter quite a bit given the way it has become to be used
https://libredirect.github.io/ to redirect twitter/youtube/
/tiktok and all the other annoying sites to mirrors that respect your privacy 
I think mirror means that you can see the thing from the original source but from a different front end. Kind of like nitter.
Yt shorts is a completely different thing.
Probably had a big brain moment that if they block people without accounts it would drive up user subs, instead of people just not doing that and going on with their day.
same as it ever was. Maybe it's been on and off but this has certainly happened before.
I noticed this last night, luckily nitter is easy enough to switch to from any Twitter url.
Is Nitter working for you right now? It's not working for me - https://hexbear.net/comment/3579351
Google news search sorted by date: twitter sign in
Big news orgs still don't know the hows and whys. It's funny. A typical comment is...
It was not immediately clear whether the change was an intentional policy update or a glitch, both of which have been common at Twitter since Musk took over the platform.
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Edit
Some users are caught in a redirect loop.
Twitter now forces you to sign in to view tweets
Change triggers an outage for some
After the change rolled out today, some users who were not logged in reported being caught in a redirect loop, preventing them from accessing the login page. Similar reports on DownDetector confirm that many Twitter users have been logged out and cannot log back in, while others report seeing "This page isn't working" errors.
"Keep getting errors when trying to access on my laptop. Says this page isnt working," one report reads. "Why is twitter not logging in,just keeps on loading ...," another user said.
