[HeckFeck]

Elon removed that restriction when he first took over, then apparently reintroduced it because of machine learning scraping the site; if you believe that. It is very annoying either way, so many interesting things that belong on their own page or even a blog lost deep in multi-tweet threads.

[hedora]

Twitter's just completely broken for me when logged out (no account, will not get one, unless it is to build a scraper that bypasses the login wall).

In particular, some public safety / emergency response accounts post safety-critical real-time updates. Visiting their pages when not logged in provides data that is years out-of-date.

I'm hoping this causes a rapid exodus and my one use case for twitter goes away.

[solardev]

That's Elon's problem. Let's not make it ours.

[delfinom]

Soon to be more annoying because Elon has started harping about putting all of twitter behind a paywall for everyone. (Obviously cash flow aint looking good) haha

[HeckFeck]

A shame, this will surely tank it. I can't imagine paying unless they also introduced guaranteed privacy (like Mastodon's data permission list - empty!) on their mobile apps. Fat chance.

I'm not sure where to go as an alternative; Mastodon doesn't have the same community or blend of personalities and viewpoints as Twitter. Ah well.

[vuln]

Hahahahah. Quite the knee slapper.

I’m sure getting advertisers a better ROI is the goal. I’m glad someone is doing something about the bots. Jack et all didn’t give two shits and lied to investors and advertisers. This is a welcome change.

If you want a platform full of bots, build your own. Simple as.

[HeckFeck]

I’d pay if the app bundled useful communication features and gave me control over my data. Also if there were no ads. Surely this would be reasonable.

Instead it looks like we will be paying AND they will be selling our data and shoving adverts in our faces willy nilly as before.

Stuff ‘dealing with bots’, this is worse.

[vuln]

Isn’t this the modus operandi of every company?

Example: You pay for a vehicle and they take all of your vehicle data and resell it. Uber as another, you pay for the ride yet get ads on your journey. There are many more examples.

Just be honest about your bias against X and Elon.

[HeckFeck]

Not at all, my current motor doesn't take any data from me and connects to nothing. I don't use Uber. I avoid data collection when I can.

I'm not 'biased' against Mr. Musk, I think he has many impressive accomplishments under his belt. I just won't blindly praise everything he does. I wish his 'anti-establishment' senses would make him more anti-bulk collection, it seems inconsistent to me.