Yea I just don't read twitter content anymore. Same thing I did to facebook. There's some really good stuff on there that I miss, but it simply isn't worth it to me. Easy enough.
Tbh, same. I do miss getting some information about Windows betas pretty much, but other than that, I won't miss Twitter at all.
People need to publish more on more open and community driven solutions. Heck, even publishing information for a site that still works on older PCs is better than publishing information on Twitter.
There are some handy mechanisms you can use on Twitter to filter and curate what you get to see.
You can mute any word or hashtag you want.
You can create lists containing specific people or orgs you'd like to keep up with.
Occasionally something slips through the cracks but nothing is perfect.
With those mechanisms in mind though, Twitter is pretty hackable. You can get it into a state where you can still consume things you're interested in. And if you don't want to give ad impressions you can access it with a browser that can block ads.
With each passing day we regress technically .
That's beside the point though. There's no actual need to force logins, it's just something Elon wants. Given what a dumpster fire Twitter has turned into the rational move for most people is probably to just forget about the site at this point.
Only thing I can think of is starting to get into gaming-site type territory where you end up trying to do things like analyze mouse position, click patterns (every 30 seconds at exactly the 0,0 pixel or whatever), and so on. But this sort of stuff is a cat and mouse game, where I think the cat is generally going to be at a pretty big disadvantage.
A better idea would be to sell access to the firehose and API at a reasonable cost such that it makes more sense to pay them for this rather than set up a whole scraping farm, aka the Netflix model. Unlike Netflix, they won't be crippled by 3rd parties unlicensing content.
What we old people call "reading"? But if that's what you crazy kids call it these days.
> Do you have a better idea because we’d love to hear it
Oh well, now you mention it, it'd be rather nice if Elon Musk went and stuck his head up the back of a cow.
Anyway gotta go scrape some more HN posts...