So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.
Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related
Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/
Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.
I can’t wait for this stubborn jackass to kill off twitter to the point it becomes an unrecoverable decline.
It basically is, free API was culled destroying many apps and sites that scraped data from Twitter. So many glitches and bugs mean it’s easy to get banned.
You get temporarily blocked if you follow more than a couple accounts in a short time and basically anything. So much anti-vax rubbish and crazy people forced onto my feed. Blocking too many of those gets you temp locked out.
Now this login screen and I’m struggling to see how anyone can find it useful. My work still insists though.
I have conflicted feelings about the death of Twitter. I mean, because it’s owned by that jackass moron Elon, I cheer on Twitter’s death. BUT… Twitter is (sadly) the only (non-adult site) place left on the Internet that allows sex workers to exist. The death of Twitter is going to mean a shit load of vulnerable people’s jobs are going to be fucked
the only way mastodon will ever get a chance, and even then, it’s gonna be an uphill battle. even with zero competition, mastodon will struggle. Because its name fucking sucks. Dear gods. Who in their right fucking mind names a social media service after an ungainly lumbering beast that is world renowned for being EXTINCT.
Maybe if they renamed the whole thing to something like “trunky”, a bright and bouncy name like that might actually stick. Meanwhile, an elephant never forgets, etc. The unfortunate connection to the american conservative faction’s mascot might still be a stumbling block, but it’s not nearly as big a problem as it being currently called “mastodon”.
Yes. Lemmy is also a bad name. But Mastodon guy I believe is German as well — I peg it to one of those, “concept doesn’t cross the copywriting language barrier” sort of issues.
It’s probably the worst app name, period. It needs to be forked and rebranded.