It's hardly unique to Twitter but it's so frustrating how much "content" online requires an account. Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok or a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram, I'm barraged with a thousand dark patterns forcing me to log in. Even Reddit is doing it now. I do wonder how much of this is to boost engagement versus another "wonderful" side effect from LLMs since they need training data.

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jackb4040 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The other day someone on here gave me a useful framing. Non-publicly accessible sites are the dark web. If a project told you they were moving all their docs and support to the dark web they would sound crazy, but if they say they're moving it to discord (the same thing) then it's fine.

	▲	itintheory 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>the dark web I prefer the older term "deep web" [1]. It's mentioned in Wikipedia that the terms are used as synonyms now, but I think it's important to differentiate between sites behind login/authentication/etc, and sites that are still openly accessible, albeit over Tor, i2p, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web

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xigoi 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok

Reply with a screenshot showing that you can’t view the content.

> a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram

Don’t go there. Plenty of other restaurants to choose from. They just lost a customer due to their hostility.

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skinfaxi 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think we will see the internet closed off more and more as AI usage grows.

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duskwuff 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Twitter was doing stupid growth hacks, like requiring login to view replies, even before AI scrapers were a concern. (And I suspect many of the scrapers are just using logged-in accounts.)

	▲	dylan604 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> before AI scrapers were a concern didn't the scrapers scrape everything well before concerns were raised. were the concerns raised after the LLMs were released and then people realized what happened? so, forcing logins just closed the barn door after the horses got out.

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kelvinjps10 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

libredirect is very good for these kinda of things. But the platforms keep trying to make it stop working so is a constant battle of the frontents to build workarounds

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micromacrofoot 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's tracking and data harvesting, always is