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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mastodon alternative

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Why isn't it just federating though? Do I have to create an account just to read the Twitter instance?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except it's like... completely centralized and controlled by a single entity? Absolutely absurd if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

BlueSky, Mastadon, and now Threads apparently.