This to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in.

There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities.

This comment also applies to facebook too, which I think is even worse than twitter.

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forestingfisher 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We used to have that, it was called a blog. I used to subscribe to all my local politicians and journalist blogs back in the late 2000s and would recieve everything I needed in my inbox, but now everyone posts on Twitter. That's where we have ActivityPub.

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throw_m239339 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities.

RSS.

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DaedalusII 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

but how to do that without protecting the content from enemy LLM companies scraping?

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jasonlotito 4 hours ago | parent [-]

On the off chance someone thinks this is serious, being locked behind a login doesn't prevent your site from being scraped.

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amiga386 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, the shitter authors recommended you buy a bundle of Twitter accounts with 2FA details when setting up your own instance, to avoid getting rate-limited.

There are millions of accounts for sale, roughly $0.10 per account.

https://hstockplus.com/accounts/twitter-x-accounts?sortBy=pr...

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zImPatrick 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This wasn‘t recommended officially by the authors, right? I saw it on someone‘s codeberg fork but not on the official repo

	▲	amiga386 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, let's say shitter's authors: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Creating-session-...

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immibis2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

also, public broadcasts should be scraped as much as possible