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
HN 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.
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Am 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.
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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.
It'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.
Yeah, I thought it was interesting that nobody really questioned the relevance of intent over appearance.
If doing a nazi salute isn't sad enough, failing to reclaim it is even sadder