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- Hacker News
- it's funny. Twitter lost so much of it's power and reach when it went behind a login type paywall. if people can't see what's posted, why post it lol? The super majority of people see tweets logged out. Dead platform.by techteach00
- well, since Nitter stopped working I've stopped reading Twitter posts, it doesn't seem like much information value for me was lost, though especially now during Nepal floods it would be probably good source of videos, more difficult to skim through them on Reddit/4chan, if one is interested in videos of disastersby Markoff
- Won't this lead to even less people looking at the platform? Are they trying to cut off the cultists inside from any outside observability? Doesn't that directly result in less power/influence for Musk?by rf15
- by rawling
- completely expected, but still quite sad.
But like hydra, cut off one head, and two shall spawn. It should never be illegal to proxy another site, if the information content from that site was originally user generated. Using copyright as a shield is just a legal mechanism, and i don't believe it is just.
Therefore, it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this.
by chii