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The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.
by easterncalculus 2y ago
The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.
- dmix 2y ago> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents. Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links
- bigmattystyles 2y agoAm I remembering correctly that when Elon first took over, he took that gate down because of his whole free speech thing. I'm guessing they re-instated it as soon as it hit the bottom line. Makes me wonder if government should still rely on it for comms.
- dmix 2y agoOne of the first things Twitter did post Elon was remove sign in gating then I guess the bankers pressed Elon and it went back up. Can't always do everything you want in business, I guess. Bills come first.
- petters 2y agoWasn't it because of extensive scraping?
- Geee 2y agoI think it was removed by geohot when he was in the house, but then reinstated after a while. I remember him railing against it.
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- thih9 2y agoHN often has twitter links when this is the primary source; in that case in comments there are usually links to mirrors or threadreader. Here twitter is not the main source, there are better ones (both better quality and more user friendly). I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.
- dmix 2y agoI've been on HN since the very beginning and the solution has always been simple: if the post is auth/pay-walled then post archive links or copy paste the text in comments. I get why there's noise about banning X suddenly but lets not pretend it's for sudden technical/UX concerns. No one is calling for NYT, WSJ, or WaPo submissions to be avoided. Twitter had auth gating for many years before Elon.
- thih9 2y agoThat’s my point; like I said: > I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available. Twitter had auth gating but also mirrors; now Nitter is discontinued.
- dmix 2y agoFair enough. For the record I despise how bad twitters gating is :/
- kernal 2y ago> The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute You need to be a radical far leftist to even believe that. But then this is Reddit.
- SettembreNero 2y agoIf doing a nazi salute isn't sad enough, failing to reclaim it is even sadder
- jeffhuys 2y agoIt's an interesting thing to see happen. In seconds, people snapped it and flooded the internet with it. But nothing will happen, because doing a "nazi salute" on accident means nothing.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoYeah, I thought it was interesting that nobody really questioned the relevance of intent over appearance.
- ImJamal 2y agoPretty much every politician has done the same "nazi" salute. If that is actually the reason that is ridiculous.
- ImJamal 2y agoObama, Warren, Hillary Clinton and Harris have all made the same salute. If Musk is a Nazi because of that, then where does leave all these politicians many of us votes for...