@gamingonlinux I just saw Elon Musk respond to criticism over this decision by saying there were hundreds of organizations scraping Twitter aggressively to the point of impacting the user experience.
@gamingonlinux Not just individual tweets, but all of Twitter seems broken for me unless logged in, and there doesn't seem a way to log in because it's broken...
@gamingonlinux they really want to keep their tight grip on their user base it seems.
But I feel like this is somewhat scaring away people who are curious and passerby’s.
@gamingonlinux can’t download games without downloading steam client. These companies will never care about you. The data you willingly sign up is the same has twitter earning millions of dollars. Reject Valve being the “good guy” and twitter as a necessary part of internet. Both of these companies want money, not make you happy.
Nitter is fantastic for getting around this. It even embeds in steam chat, unlike twitter lately. I have stuff auto redirect with the Privacy Redirect browser extension.
@gamingonlinux Huh. That may single-handedly kill the site. They're vastly underestimating how much of Twitter was searching important tweets or passing tweets between people.
It undercuts the entire "social" part of the social network, heh.
@glassbottommeg@gamingonlinux I wish that were the case. The last nine months though have been seeing communities just tenaciously hanging on like nothing is happening, refusing to leave or even consider it. It's been driving me crazy. So many people just don't care how bad it gets, and I keep wondering what it's gonna take (I suspect: eventually being unable to block blue checks).
@gamingonlinux You can use https://bird.makeup/ to feed Twitter account into Your Mastodon, or You can use https://nitter.net/ (or different instance). I use Nitter to get RSS from tweets. We'll see how long both solutions work giving Musk's chaotic changes in Twitter. 😉
@gamingonlinux The "trick" worked on me, because I wanted to get status updates about the @fastmail outage and they're not updating here very often. For various reasons, I shouldn't have bothered, and I don't think I'll be doing that again. For the most part, I'm not really missing Twitter.
@Stephen304@gamingonlinux Interesting my nitter rss feeds were working as of when I made that post. I checked before posting. Might be hitting some nitter instances later than others?
Also Nitter I thought I read was using twitter's own private APIs reverse engineered. Which should make it somewhat immune.
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