On this moment you’ll need an account to view anything on the platform…
Every day the bird dies a little more
That’s not what paywalled means.
To be fair, you are technically paying for it. Just with your data instead of money
theyre called scare quotes
For what it’s worth, I agree with you @assbutt.
People who think paywall is synonymous with sign-in or account required probably spell “should have” with an “of.”
Quotes are often used around a word when it’s similar enough to another word to be understood.
Paywalled means you must have an account and pay in order to view an article.
There is no equivalent word that comes to mind for this, but “paywalled” is so close as to be misunderstood only if you’re trying to do so – you must now have an account and login in order to view what’s behind the login wall.
The good ol’ loginwall that social media sites have been moving to for a few years. Meta is also guilty of this… making it almost impossible to check out anything without a login.
Just a reminder that nitter exists, which lets you browse twitter without needing an account, from a minimal ui and having everything proxied through the instance of choice for privacy. You can use the libredirect firefox addon to automatically redirect twitter (& optionally other services like youtube/reddit, etc to its frontend like nitter).
You can view a list of instances here.
edit: … wow it looks like nitter’s also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip…
Works now, though I don’t know what nitter.net’s method of obtaining Tweet data is, and wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Twitter intends to crack down on that, sooner or later.
This shouldn’t even be a question. IT IS CONTROLLED BY MICROSOFT
it is a tool that they are using to embrace, extend, extinguish the free software movement, something they’ve been doing for more than a few decades now.
