It seems a lot of reddit communities are starting to block xitter as it's painful to use now without an account. Should HN do the same?
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.
> 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
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Pretty much every politician has done the same "nazi" salute. If that is actually the reason that is ridiculous.
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> 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.
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Nah. I just wanted to see a source I trusted to be legitimate before sharing a sensational story.
if its on front page of HN already w/ hundreds of votes, i think its fair to assume its legitimate regardless of the source.
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No. Let us decide how we want to handle it. Most of us could handle it ourselves through scripts and extensions if it really bothered us anyway.
Of course not, the tweet here is _the_ original source for that news
>it's painful to use now without an account.
Now??? Its been just as painful to use without an account for around 10 years now.
No, it's worse now.
Back in 2017, I could still read public profiles, their tweets, and look at the replies, all without logging in.
Now I can't even look at an account page without logging in.