WetGeek It's just a "problem, please retry" screen. of the three browsers I have its the same on all of them. they all have different addon/plugins so I don't think its me.

It's been 2 days I have not been granted the privilege to view any tweets. maybe I'm blacklisted? maybe they are screening by IP addresses? who knows. I've never had an account there and I've never engaged. I have no blacklists that I know of (there are channels to check) so I don't know if it's just me.

I understand he is on some bot inquisition so will check back when the dust settles.

      riffer Not everyone wants to sell their data to read the occasional tweet

      That's a fair comment, but I'm willing to believe that the old Twitter has been cleaned up by now. I closed my account years ago, when it was clear that it wasn't for me. But when Elon bought it, restored free speech, and fired most of the real offenders, I joined again.

      That was during the Solus Troubles, and it was a way to get some information from the team. So far, I haven't had any reason to regret that decision, apart from all the bots that are following me, but that seems to be getting cleaned up as well. I don't follow them back, so they're just a nuisance, not a danger.

          brent maybe I'm blacklisted

          I think that was the old Twitter. This one supports free speech.

              WetGeek I've never spoke on Twitter, just liked to read comments. No account/membership either. No politics. I'm reading swaths of people have no access to Twitter whatsoever, at this moment, so I don't feel so crazy.

              It was a fun place to find funny memes and oddball videos and that is about the sum of its value to me. I agree with you that I found none of Solus' avenues of communication adequate during the outage including that one.

                  brent I know I am not chasing around the net making needless accounts
                  Did have couple places I read on twitter accounts but oh well
                  was thinking of having a twitter account but think that on the back burner now
                  I will stick with the forum here and If we ever have another episode Prob be done.
                  Just my view
                  (I suspect with all the turmoil in the world we are up for a ride)

                      You can use whatever you want, there is no reason for Solus to dump the platforms so long as at least one team member is willing to take care of it. Personally I do not like reddit/facebook/twitter/mastodon so I don't use them, I am not pushing the other team members to abandon it because its none of my business what they use.

                        Harvey Variety of platforms is great and is a good backup, as long as there are team members who have and make time to update on them. 😄

                          Axios I know I am not chasing around the net making needless accounts
                          Did have couple places I read on twitter accounts but oh well
                          was thinking of having a twitter account but think that on the back burner now
                          I will stick with the forum here and If we ever have another episode Prob be done.

                          My only regret in this world is creating the one-time only accounts (to send something, pay someting, civic reasons, job apps, etc) which is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many useless user names and passwords out there. Backtracking and nuking is my next big project online. I am ashamed for all of them but the way of the internets these days sadly....the forum is the only place for info imho but like you said:
                          "I will stick with the forum here and If we ever have another episode Prob be done."---
                          me too. it became unsafe and that was weird. weird enough to have a #2 right now.

                            For me the main annoyances is when I go to a website and they have a link to something on twitter that I can't read. No description, no embedding blah blah.

                            murbert I like the premise behind Mastodon and the Fediverse. But it's not exactly welcoming to newcomers.

                                D-Smithee I haven't had the same experience, but this is to be expected. Different people, different experiences. I joined at a time when mastodon.social was not accepting new users, so I chose a different server. It was welcoming and enjoyable, but overall just not for me. I switched to a different server and took my social graph with me and all is fine. May still move servers again as this one happens to be primarily Portuguese, but I use the following and federated timelines mostly, don't use to much of the "home" timeline.

                                  D-Smithee He hasn't restored anything but anarchy.

                                  Your experience and mine seem to be very different, but I'm afraid if we keep going with this it'll end up getting political pretty fast, and that would only degrade our forum. So I'm going to bail out of this thread now, and hope to catch up with you elsewhere. Cheers!

                                      UPDATE: thank you Jah [your politically correct deity here]! Mercy! I'm not Institution crazy yet.
                                      NO ACCOUNT? THEN NO VIEWING ANYTHING:
                                      https://mashable.com/article/twitter-force-visitors-login-view-tweets-profiles

                                      "Twitter has now begun locking visitors out of the platform unless they're logged into their account. Visiting any Twitter page other than the homepage without being signed in will automatically forward users to a page where they can login or set up an account on the platform. Visitors cannot view any user content without logging in.

                                      The unexpected move from Twitter started rolling out on Friday. There has yet to be any official announcement from the company. Users started to discover(opens in a new tab) the change themselves when attempting to view tweets or profiles while not logged into their account."

                                      I don't want a stupid account I just like to read. Their loss.

                                      edit/Institution always vexes me plus bolds are my editorial thingy

                                        brent I don't want a stupid account I just like to read. Their loss.

                                        Yeah, That'll probably put them right out of business.

                                            WetGeek my intention is not to put them out of business. On the contrary, I'd like to see him turn a profit.

                                            But I don't back down on my statement at all. His loss. "I am large. I contain multitudes" (walt whitman).

                                            Look at it this way.
                                            If Solus Forum turned into "members only no readers allowed" then many open and free Solus Forums would open.
                                            If Youtube turned into ""members only no music listeners allowed" than free and open music platforms would sink youtube into a footnote of history.
                                            Newspapers around the country are demanding paywall $$ to read their Approved Narratives and they are hemmoraghing readers and money while citizen journalism is burgeoning.

                                            Musk is playing some kind of Long Game but I don't know what it is nor do I have another minute to think it through. Space X turning a profit? Check. Tesla turning a profit? Check. Twitter appearing to go down in flames? Check.

                                            edit/no edit. i thought I would. but I didn't