Here's a trick to view a tweet: use the embed.
https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16748657311...
Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Embedded tweets also stopped working.)
And people said I was being a Luddite for saying "just copy the text or take a screenshot", that's a lot of "news" articles at this point. Definitely disturbing that journalists (especially) figured it was good archival practice to rely on the Twitter API in providing context. For years, if I didn't enable twitter's javascript, news articles are missing images and quotes, obviously so. It's embarrassing, I honestly d…
I grew up with the practice of never putting more of my life in the digital world than necessary. Given the recent Amazon smarthome snafu I don't see a reason to change.
Very innovation, many progress.
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#33https://nitter.cz/, from the Czech collective NoLogz, has a statement in place of the error message:
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"Nitter.cz is not working, just like all other Nitter instances. The reason is Twitter blocking all access to it's content without login.
We are sorry, but there is nothing we can do about it right now and we are not sure if the situation will change in the future.
Don't trust corporations, especially those where one egomaniac has all the power. Use open-source and community driven solutions if you can (like Mastodon).
Sincerely, NoLog.cz collective
PS: You can also donate to us to keep our other services running"
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#34Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology
No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid.
The Internet is supposed to be distributed. We've gotten so used to consolidated services that we have forgotten this lesson.
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#35And now imagine a citizen wants to quickly check news/updates/whatever from a government agency or a city council which doesn't have a fediverse account
Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place?
At the very least if these sites are being used for official communication that might be critical to peoples safety some sort of privileged status or ToS should be negotiated. Can you imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government agency because he had a fit while high at 3 am?
Also: https://xkcd.com/743/
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#36This feels a little like the shittiest restaurant in town raising its prices. I have an account, and I wouldn't even bother logging in at this point. Why bother? The Twitter experience is so devotedly wretched that whatever I'd get from the tweet I want to see is outweighed by everything I have to wade through to see it. There was a point when Twitter was good enough that maybe they could have pulled something like t…
> The Twitter experience is so devotedly wretched
Even the content aside (that you have to wade through), just from a technical perspective the Twitter experience leaves a lot to be desired.
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#37You can blame this all you want on evil social media corporations, but the reality is AI companies scraping public conversations to feed LLMs are the current reason for walls being erected around every single garden. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn.. all heading toward full walled garden mode to prevent scrapers from repurposing data and profiting off their systems.
Federated systems are a nice idea, but they're not funded and will crumble under the same pressure until they too go into private mode. It's simply not a financially sound decision to run an open node that is continually harvested by corporations seeking to profit off the conversations occurring on your platforms.
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#38Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology
No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid. The Internet is supposed to be distributed. We've gotten so used to consolidated services that we have forgotten this lesson.
> No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid.
Sounds like the issues we currently have with democracy.
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#39Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology
No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid. The Internet is supposed to be distributed. We've gotten so used to consolidated services that we have forgotten this lesson.
don't you think one is a consequence of the other?
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#40And now imagine a citizen wants to quickly check news/updates/whatever from a government agency or a city council which doesn't have a fediverse account
Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place? At the very least if these sites are being used for official communication that might be critical to peoples safety some sort of privileged status or ToS should be negotiated. Can you imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government agency because he had a fit while high at 3 am? Also: https://xkcd.com/743/
NY Transit officially stopped using Twitter. I hope others follows.
Google results that require a login to view are cancerous