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dmix01/22/20253 repliesview on HN

> 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


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thih901/22/2025

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.

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bigmattystyles01/22/2025

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.

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