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objectively too many tv/anime/manga screencaps
photography, especially infrared
I'm honestly disturbed by how fast everyone ended up just accepting the idea that you have to be signed in to a social media site to see any posts, or even profiles. Twitter, tumblr, reddit, all of those used to be things you could just stumble into from a search engine
for this reason, it is deeply frustrating when small businesses, community orgs, etc., don't have a functioning website because they keep everything on facebook or instagram.
i saw a post on reddit that linked to a tweet that said "I have made a thing! Details in thread!" and the thread doesn't exist without logging in. people were linking to that 'im sick... of something' joe biden tweet the other day and the second tweet isn't even visible! do people still not realise that their tweets aren't viewable anymore?
I genuinely think people on the "inside" of these platforms have no idea what they look like to anyone outside.
"everyone has an account on every social media platform" is widely assumed to be true and demonstrably very false
I've heard YouTube is considering quashing shit like Freetube by forcing people to log in to watch videos, and therefore the ads on said videos. A part of me hopes they go through with this if only to see Alphabet's stock plummet because they broke a bunch of business and government websites.
their solution would be that if you want your videos viewed by logged out users, please pay $0.xx/view :)
https://nitter.poast.org , https://nitter.privacydev.net and https://xcancel.com still work as of right now.
I’m aware! I don’t see that as a real solution though - official dev shut down awhile back, and any of then nitter instances could stop any time if their key gets revoked. The problem for me is twitter’s policy.
tumblr had a login wall that could be deleted using inspect element, but in the past few weeks they made it so that even if you delete it using inspect element, the js on the page will just force you back to the top when you scroll down. like come on
the "surface web" was a huge quality of life improvement over the old web. people talk about "dark web" and "deep web" but like, the web is deep by default, nothing is findable until someone makes a finder for it.
I guess the de-surfacing of these platforms is partly because their surface nature was being exploited for profit? Reddit's whole thing was that they were being scraped for LLMs and they wanted to get paid for that, as they should, but rather than take the LLMs to court they just paywalled everyone.
