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There’s a strange irony in Redditors complaining about this when Reddit has been rolling out the same sporadic login requirements (on mobile web) to view certai

There’s a strange irony in Redditors complaining about this when Reddit has been rolling out the same sporadic login requirements (on mobile web) to view certain Reddit content. I suppose these angry Reddit commenters bashing Twitter aren’t seeing it because they’re logged in to Reddit. Just as with Reddit, there are workarounds to bypass this login requirement if you really want to. The users in that thread have some tips for using uBlock to disable it.

0x_rs 5y ago
I don't have a reddit account, but it has (for now) the old, usable interface available, so the issue does not persist. Twitter doesn't, and one needs third party services such as nitter or other front ends to avoid the bloated, buggy, purposefully worthless UI. This tendency to build walled garden communities can't end well, but at the same time the platforms introducing these dark patterns themselves aren't particularly honest, so not much of value is going to be lost as hopefully better alternatives get more adoption. Anyway, up until a few days ago there were uBO filters to delete twitter cookies every page load and it seemed to do the trick, this may not work anymore.
TeMPOraL 5y ago
> There’s a strange irony in Redditors complaining about this when Reddit has been rolling out the same sporadic login requirements (on mobile web) to view certain Reddit content. My first thought when I saw the headline was, how long until the front page features this: Reddit starts to require login to view posts (twitter.com) Then I realized this has probably already happened a while ago. Such is the treadmill of social media platforms.
- NoGravitas 5y ago
  The modern internet: four websites each filled with nothing but screenshots from the other three.
  - TeMPOraL 5y ago
    Ah yes, the classic. This was the earliest mention I could find: https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lang=en https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lan.... "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
    - dredmorbius 5y ago
      FTFY: https://nitter.eu/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lang=en https://nitter.eu/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lang=...
  - mywittyname 5y ago
    There's a sad amount of "news" content on the web that amount to listicals of a Reddit post.
kevinmchugh 5y ago
The people complaining on Reddit are already logged in
ragazzina 5y ago
But signing up for Reddit is much easier than signing up for Twitter. You just need to specify a username and a password. You don't need an email or a phone number.
jrmg 5y ago
I’m not sure it’s as much ‘the same’ as it appears at first glance. Increasingly, Twitter is a place where people post original _content_ - things they expect others to be able to see and read and share, potentially on other platforms. These range from the original pithy remarks to long, article-like streams. It seems problematic to me to require a login to view these, and I think it could have an effect on usage for these kinds of things. There’s not so much of that in Reddit. It’s more a discussion forum, where reading seems like the secondary thing to do to me. Peoples identity also isn’t as ‘obvious’ on Reddit. Of course, it’s not concrete - you do see long shareable ‘articles’ in Reddit comments sometimes, but I do find myself more taken aback by a Twitter login requirement than a Reddit one.

0x_rs 5y ago

I don't have a reddit account, but it has (for now) the old, usable interface available, so the issue does not persist. Twitter doesn't, and one needs third party services such as nitter or other front ends to avoid the bloated, buggy, purposefully worthless UI. This tendency to build walled garden communities can't end well, but at the same time the platforms introducing these dark patterns themselves aren't particularly honest, so not much of value is going to be lost as hopefully better alternatives get more adoption. Anyway, up until a few days ago there were uBO filters to delete twitter cookies every page load and it seemed to do the trick, this may not work anymore.

TeMPOraL 5y ago

> There’s a strange irony in Redditors complaining about this when Reddit has been rolling out the same sporadic login requirements (on mobile web) to view certain Reddit content. My first thought when I saw the headline was, how long until the front page features this: Reddit starts to require login to view posts (twitter.com) Then I realized this has probably already happened a while ago. Such is the treadmill of social media platforms.

NoGravitas 5y ago
The modern internet: four websites each filled with nothing but screenshots from the other three.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Ah yes, the classic. This was the earliest mention I could find: https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lang=en https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lan.... "I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four."
  - dredmorbius 5y ago
    FTFY: https://nitter.eu/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lang=en https://nitter.eu/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040?lang=...
- mywittyname 5y ago
  There's a sad amount of "news" content on the web that amount to listicals of a Reddit post.

kevinmchugh 5y ago

The people complaining on Reddit are already logged in

ragazzina 5y ago

But signing up for Reddit is much easier than signing up for Twitter. You just need to specify a username and a password. You don't need an email or a phone number.

jrmg 5y ago

I’m not sure it’s as much ‘the same’ as it appears at first glance. Increasingly, Twitter is a place where people post original _content_ - things they expect others to be able to see and read and share, potentially on other platforms. These range from the original pithy remarks to long, article-like streams. It seems problematic to me to require a login to view these, and I think it could have an effect on usage for these kinds of things. There’s not so much of that in Reddit. It’s more a discussion forum, where reading seems like the secondary thing to do to me. Peoples identity also isn’t as ‘obvious’ on Reddit. Of course, it’s not concrete - you do see long shareable ‘articles’ in Reddit comments sometimes, but I do find myself more taken aback by a Twitter login requirement than a Reddit one.