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The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute, not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

>>easter+(OP)
> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.

Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links

>>dmix+s
Am I remembering correctly that when Elon first took over, he took that gate down because of his whole free speech thing. I'm guessing they re-instated it as soon as it hit the bottom line. Makes me wonder if government should still rely on it for comms.

>>bigmat+M1
One of the first things Twitter did post Elon was remove sign in gating then I guess the bankers pressed Elon and it went back up. Can't always do everything you want in business, I guess. Bills come first.

>>bigmat+M1
Wasn't it because of extensive scraping?

>>dmix+s
HN often has twitter links when this is the primary source; in that case in comments there are usually links to mirrors or threadreader.

Here twitter is not the main source, there are better ones (both better quality and more user friendly).

I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.

>>bigmat+M1
I think it was removed by geohot when he was in the house, but then reinstated after a while. I remember him railing against it.

>>easter+(OP)
> The main reason all the subs made this change today is because of the elon nazi salute

You need to be a radical far leftist to even believe that. But then this is Reddit.

>>kernal+Ph
If doing a nazi salute isn't sad enough, failing to reclaim it is even sadder

>>kernal+Ph
It's an interesting thing to see happen. In seconds, people snapped it and flooded the internet with it. But nothing will happen, because doing a "nazi salute" on accident means nothing.

>>easter+(OP)
Pretty much every politician has done the same "nazi" salute. If that is actually the reason that is ridiculous.

>>jeffhu+IJ
Yeah, I thought it was interesting that nobody really questioned the relevance of intent over appearance.

>>ImJama+Ab1
Obama, Warren, Hillary Clinton and Harris have all made the same salute. If Musk is a Nazi because of that, then where does leave all these politicians many of us votes for...

>>thih9+nd
I've been on HN since the very beginning and the solution has always been simple: if the post is auth/pay-walled then post archive links or copy paste the text in comments.

I get why there's noise about banning X suddenly but lets not pretend it's for sudden technical/UX concerns. No one is calling for NYT, WSJ, or WaPo submissions to be avoided. Twitter had auth gating for many years before Elon.

>>dmix+823
That’s my point; like I said:

> I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.

Twitter had auth gating but also mirrors; now Nitter is discontinued.

>>thih9+p73
Fair enough. For the record I despise how bad twitters gating is :/