Twitter blocking search function if you use a VPN so they can easily track IP addresses.

Grateful we have nostr. 💜

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Nuke it 😁

#plebhy

🙏

And all Elon nut riders can go fuck themselves!

For real? That's insane.

Watch The Amityville Horror. The house itself was telling the family to “get out”.

Ok is elon actually trying to destroy twitter? Serious question

See you back on Twitter later today. #addict

Ah, wondered why it wasn't working. Urgh.

Really? Are the tor services still up?

I was able to search user posts and general search over NordVPN

Mullvad and IVPN servers are blocked. #[4]​ mentioned they even blocked his personal VPN.

Have not checked Tor yet.

Still working over Safari iCloud+ Anon relay.

Mullvad works for me in the Twitter iOS app’s search

The dedicated onion services no longer work. But I think you can still use Twitter over Tor browser hitting the clearnet URL

Search is working with no issues on nitter.net (or other mirrors of nitter). You can even use in Tor with javascript turned off.

Yes, nitter instance have no problems

Damn they’re really making western WeChat aren’t they

Elon DID say he wanted to do just that.

What do you use to search on nostr?

Lmao what😂 its like they want people to leave

i haven’t noticed that,

This is insane. It’s like they actually are telling people to migrate to nostr

Now who is going to build the best Nostr search engine?

PageRank (the google secret sauce from back in the day) using mentions instead of hyperlinks would probably be decently effective. Hashtag spam might become problematic (since you could think of them as keywords, a la the meta field in html), since they cannot be applied invisibly.

Works w/ Orbot in VPN mode🤷

Only reason I still use twitter is because there are a lot of normies and other folks there that I want to talk to and share resources about bitcoin, progressive arguments for bitcoin, etc. but I want them here!! *Sigh*

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Oh that's what it is? I thought maybe it was because my DNS is set up to block all their noxious ads.

Still need to get the indie journalists over here.

Matt Taibbi seems like a nostrich egg just waiting to hatch. It would be awesome if we could onboard all the Twitter files journalists.

running Orbot

Some locations are blocked while others are not

Absolutely Elon gettin no 84 bucks off me. Free speech is free Elon not 7$ a month.

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Odd, I haven't seen any issues so far over IVPN.

I'm sure it's coming though, and already transitioning mostly to Nostr.

Vpn search seems to work for me. Maybe it’s just certain jurisdictions?

Curry was right, they’re going full kyc.

Shesh

The only reason to do this is to build a surveillance system. How do we purple pill the remaining Twitter 'users'*?

* not sure if calling them users is accurate, because Twitter is using them more than they actually get back in return...

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Your post is being widely read.

Added to the https://member.cash/hot feed

VPN users will be fined $1,000,000 &/or 1 year in prison: The RESTRICT ACT.

The US Empire is going after privacy, encryption... everything:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1639934790026555394.html:

I noticed that too.

"Something went wrong."

I'll say. 🙄

Grateful for nitter.

Been using the nitter bitcoin and privacy list you shared a while back.

Twitter can suck it.

Hard to see a justifiable reason for this

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Bullish for nostr

I think it’s a bug because you can do it on iOS using a VPN

Noticed that too, Nostr came right in time

Inevitable migration to open networks.

The UX of closed networks is about to become awful due to the ‘restrict act’. Watch this video NOW 👇

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1640574887961001985?s=20

Restrictions won’t stop at search. Same will come for posting. Same for following.

Soon it won’t only be for VPN use. Twitter will move to verify your identity & social credentials before many app actions. People will be forced to adopt alternatives. Livelihoods will depend on it. Truth will depend on it. You will depend on it.

Logged out on the back of this. Hopefully forever.

This is trivial to override using a bounce node and scrubbing/replacing env vars. There will be extensions that kill this overnight. Don't know what they are thinking.

haha that's so lame.

I literally haven’t logged into Twitter since I started using Nostr more frequently in September

Likely because the bots are using the IP range for spam? I have sympathy for the engineers cuz they must be having a really hard time with bot farms.

I try to block bot accounts (usually generic Asian girls) every day from following my profile on Twitter. I swear someone is trying to track profiles with them. Full of retweets, generic photos and quotes. It's annoying.

How are those bots able to create accounts? I don't understand how Twitter makes it so easy for millions of bots to make accounts. Seems like a major flaw for such a big tech company. 🤔

Ahh ha, now I understand. I really should be sticking around here anyway.