Steve Herman#Twitter appears to be blocking unregistered users. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets
"Temporary emergency measure," says #Twitter owner Elon Musk about the platform blocking unregistered users. "We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
GenoForPrez@w7voa Interesting rhetorical maneuver calling access by internet users who don't have accounts "data pillaging'.
DenverComicGuy@genoforprez @w7voa yeah it sounds like he thinks non registered users are web scrapers or something
@genoforprez @w7voa i moderate several forums, and I’ve already blocked Twitter links as a result of this. People are free to share screenshots, but links to the website itself are useless at this point. He’s really doing his damn best to kill the website, but the users keep insisting on keeping it afloat. Really makes you wonder if it’s even possible to kill a social media site, or if network effects make then immortal.
@DenverComicGuy @w7voa Exactly. It seems to indicate (and it's not the first time) some kind of incredible naivete about how the internet works. It's fine if he wants to have a walled garden. Those are nothing new under the sun. But to sort of imply that any website that isn't a walled garden but is public facing is being pecked apart by vultures is absurd.
@DenverComicGuy @w7voa One just gets this image of him completely out of his element, like a drowning sorcerer's apprentice, and he's just yelling out "Everything's fine down here! There are just too many databytes requesting our html tables! Just gotta defragment the socket layer, that's all! I'm fine everything's fine down here!"
