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.
There is also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ in case you are not aware which support A LOT of different services besides twitter.
Most of those servers are dead though (including some nitter instances). You will need to manually disable those that don't work and it's pain in the ass.
Don't know why I haven't thought about looking for this add on. Thanks for the link!
At least until they break nitter, as they already did with the +18 content.
Nitter unfortunately does not work right now due to this change. Hopefully they will fix this somehow (probably by changing user agent to googlebot, because they still allow web crawlers)
nitter has stopped working :(
They really don't like their users, lol
Why would alpha daddy thought leaders care about low quality organic persons?!
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.
I'm fine with that.
if it's time to have conversations with actual people face to face, then so be it.
The utopian dream of the internet as the great equalizer and "Information wants to be free!" is dead.
It seems rather ironic to make that post on a fediverse service.
Why did the whole internet seemingly decide to kick their enshittification into overdrive in the past month?
There's no more venture capital/free money to spend.
Yeah, basically it has to do with interest rates & tech speculation on LLM's.
"Market trends". One greedy dipshit does it and the rest follow suit. Like spez looking up to Elon.