What’s going on?

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    AI generated Reddit
    Ad-blocks-you-back Youtube
    Login locked pay-to-win Twitter

    We are cattle to the elite’s ad revenue system.

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      The second golden age of the internet is officially over.

      Unfortunately the golden age was just a mirage, it was actually VC funds killing the ecosystem and offering impossible free services for over a decade.

      We’ll see if the internet can rebuild, but under the weight of spam and regulation and habit and clout chasing I’m not sure.

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      Why did the whole internet seemingly decide to kick their enshittification into overdrive in the past month?

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    If like me, you only engage with Twitter to the extent of clicking on a link that takes you to a Tweet, reading it and then getting the hell out before the brain dead replies consume what little remains of your soul, then can I recommend Googling up an addon for your preferred browser that redirects Twitter to Nitter as a way around this new barrier to entry.

    I am using this one

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        seems like a great idea to me! everyone will rush to mastodon because this one actually costs them money and not just ideals and their soul which they have no use for right this second!

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    So they can kiss user growth goodbye. It’s interesting to watch, because it’s like someone who has no understanding of the business model is running it. Embedded tweets and viewing tweets on the web is free advertising!

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      Being not-public is part of the reason why a lot of Twitter alternatives don’t have a lot of general mind share I think. They might work well as actual social networks (i.e. people talking to each other), but have no chance of becoming even close to what Twitter was.

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        I was on a news site yesterday that had an embed that asked if I wanted to see Twitter content or not. And I was like, “Why would I need to see and give views to a Tweet that you’re describing in this article? NOPE.” And opted out. It was great. I hope more sites do this in the future

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          kid named reading the tweet yourself instead of reading a re-telling of a tweet:

          I often look up the tweets/original news stories just because media often twists the context or grasps at straws to make for a flashier headline.

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            Kid named, I don’t need to give Elon the views when the article quotes the entire tweet. It’s not like they’re novels.

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          It’s the cool big tech move to kill your business right now. Soon we’ll be seeing articles on why making site’s unusable hellscapes is good for future growth.

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      How to wreck a social media platform: The new movie directed by Elon Musk and Steve Huffman.

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        Don’t forget Linda Yaccarino, she’s not as crazy Elon Musk, but her view is similar.

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    This is just going to speed the growth of Twitter alternatives like Mastodon, which is great, but it’s sad to see such a once-innovative, widely-used platform degrade to this level of shittiness. All because of a deranged wealthy idiot with an unchecked ego. This was a communication platform, FFS!

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    They’ve been soft locking content behind a login for a while, I guess they’re going for the full thing now. Very annoying

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    So maybe this is how I’ll give up the habit of scrolling through social media on phone. They all just lock themselves in with all the ads goodness, I guess it’s good for some of us.

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    It’s been drifting that way for a while (couldn’t go more than a few clicks without logging in) but it looks like they’ve made it official. I’m not interested in writing anything behind a login wall.

    I would say you could still use nitter.net but that seems kind of broken at the moment, maybe related.

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      Hopefully this gets public services off twitter.

      There’s no reason my local fire department or mayor should only be accessible by giving a foreign (to me) company my info and money.

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        That’s a good point!

        Also, I used to browse Twitter for years before making an account and probably would never have made one otherwise. Saying things out in public, to the public was kind of the whole point of Twitter.

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        yeah this will def cause many public and private services to think about alternatives

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      Not just clicks, even scrolling is broken. It shows content at first so you lower your guard and then block you with login page once you scroll down.

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    It’s not surprising. Other sites have been this way for ages, and they all seem to be in a struggle with one another to out-shit their beds.