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Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
Secondly, that "data pillaging" was exposure, he just removed exposure from people's tweets to save money, again.
Good work Elon.
Seems like it would be but didn't know if it works using scraping or something.
A lot of comments suggesting federation as the solution to centralisation. I believe this is a false dichotomy. I think Write Once, Publish Everywhere (including both centralised and federated) is much better. https://indieweb.org/POSSE
I find it tedious to update various social media platforms by hand, especially when each platform has its own rules and conventions. There are paid services that help but they often don't cover all of the platforms that I use, or are prohibitively expensive. Also if you just post a link to your site some social media platforms will treat you as a spammer.
Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology
Twitter made a convenient, easy to use, centralized (which is an absolute positive for user experience), social media product that attracted people, by their own free will. The number of people using a social media service amplifies its "usefulness", so the more people, the stronger it attracts new users.
We didn't put the internet in the hands of these corporations. We walked over and sat in their, easy to use, hands.
Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology
And 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/
"Temporary emergency measure" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957
Same kind of speech as "special military operation"
And 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/
Reach.
IDK if anyone is using it as the sole method of communication.
But Twitter in practice has a much higher reach than every other method.