Starting today, Twitter is no longer accessible on web and mobile apps if you don't have an account, forcing all users to log in if they want to get access to the platform.
I was skeptical at first, but I’m now 100% certain this is all intentional. Twitter and Reddit were too inspirational to the masses. The fascists are here to stomp them out. 44bn is all it cost them for Twitter, not sure they even had to spend much on Reddit.
It’s the new rise of CEOs and millionaires seeking to milk the internet to the last fractional dime. Leave morals and critical thinking at the door. Every major company is doing this now, shutting out everything even remotely capable of being scraped into a LLM and paywalling what used to be free to satisfy post-covid shareholders. Accessibility be damned, line must go up.
Beyond that we have Google crippling the Android and Chromium open source code, Youtube blocking user accounts using adblock, Twitch banning sponsor spots who sidestep their pockets, and of course all of them are doubling down on AI with massive amounts of corporate sponsored IP theft and data laundering on an incompressible scale, suffocating any human content (see the Amazon book crisis).
Twitter and reddit are in an intense race to become the shittiest website. I wonder who will win…
I was skeptical at first, but I’m now 100% certain this is all intentional. Twitter and Reddit were too inspirational to the masses. The fascists are here to stomp them out. 44bn is all it cost them for Twitter, not sure they even had to spend much on Reddit.
Apparently Spez will do it for free.
Cory Doctorow invented a term for it: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
I still can’t understand how spez saw what Twitter was doing and thought it looked like a good idea
It’s the new rise of CEOs and millionaires seeking to milk the internet to the last fractional dime. Leave morals and critical thinking at the door. Every major company is doing this now, shutting out everything even remotely capable of being scraped into a LLM and paywalling what used to be free to satisfy post-covid shareholders. Accessibility be damned, line must go up.
Beyond that we have Google crippling the Android and Chromium open source code, Youtube blocking user accounts using adblock, Twitch banning sponsor spots who sidestep their pockets, and of course all of them are doubling down on AI with massive amounts of corporate sponsored IP theft and data laundering on an incompressible scale, suffocating any human content (see the Amazon book crisis).
Twitter had a massive head start, and YouTube might be entering the competition soon as well!
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