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Twitter is basically broken if you don't login, compare this: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip https://nitter.net/andrewmcc
by pera 3y ago
Twitter is basically broken if you don't login, compare this:
https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip
https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip https://nitter.net/andrewmccalip
In Twitter the latest tweet I see is from July, in Nitter is 22 minutes ago. Additionally in Twitter I get 3 notices/popups that I need to close.
- ssijak 3y agoI was not aware of this, I'm always logged in when I visit twitter
- willis936 3y agoAnd I'm not.
- rvnx 3y agoLinks behind logins wall/paywall should be totally forbidden, Twitter, Quora, news websites, etc. I don't even get why they are indexed by Google, as this is cloaking, and forbidden by the ToS (+ gets annoying)
- mrkeen 3y agoYeah that would be nice, but pretty hard to enforce. I just read until I hit the first popup, then I back out. I'd downvote if I could.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoGoogle gave up on checking or enforcing these things because they'd otherwise lose traffic and ad revenue.
- vinyl7 3y agoGoogle has a rule where links from google can't be paywalled. So you can see Quora posts if you enter from a Google link, but not if you go to the URL directly.
- nicce 3y agoWe should discourage the use of walled-gardens for public discussion anyway. Otherwise nothing changes ever.
- dillydogg 3y agoDo you mean closed source software? Because that would rule out Hackernews. But I agree on the principle. Maybe it's the type of discussion. I would be happier if this very exciting superconductor story was unfolding somewhere else than Twitter.
- orra 3y agoA walled garden is when users contribute the data for free, but the data is stuck. No free API access.
- dillydogg 3y agoAh, makes sense, thanks for the clarification
- owenmarshall 3y ago“Walled garden” is orthogonal to “open source” A walled garden is a site that degrades significantly or is unavailable without an account, like Twitter. Anyone can view all of HN modulo dead comments without an account. You can have a fully open source walled garden.
- dillydogg 3y agoI appreciate the clarification, thanks. This forum is open to the public at the moment. Though Hackernews could go down or take the conversation offline at any moment (this is an issue of trust more than anything, and I think HN does a good job, certainly more than Twitter)
- hjek 3y agoHackernews was released as free / open source some years back. There's a community managed fork: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/ https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/