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Post by flyinghamster »

darkarmani wrote: post #34
agluszak wrote: post #17

Putting 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.

It's that old tradeoff - convenience vs. single point of failure. Unfortunately, we're getting to see now what that single point of failure does to us. A big chunk of the open web is winking out of existence at this very moment.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by kibwen »

Macha wrote: post #57

I will miss some of the Ukraine news as twitter was good for that, but that's about it for me at this point.

Here's a Mastodon server that mirrors many Ukraine-related Twitter accounts: https://fed.celp.de/@uanews

(Who knows how long it will keep working, of course.)

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by MrOwen »

paxys wrote: post #56
agluszak wrote: post #17

Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology

Doesn't come as a surprise when you look at how openly hostile the open source community still is to prioritizing user experiences and supporting tech-illiterate users in general. FOSS, fediverse, IPFS all had their chance, and they blew it. Corporations were the ones who opened up the internet to the 99% of people who would otherwise never have been there at all, and now they want to collect their cut.

To be completely fair, FOSS' marketing budget is orders of magnitude smaller than these corporation's budgets. Not to say that you're wrong but I suspect that's more like a drop in the bucket compared to marketing.

Even now, these federated sites on the rise have technicial growing pains. And those will probably take years to get through until it's to a point where everyone can use it with little friction.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by dang »

_zzaw wrote: post #14
jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #7

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!"

Yes, it was definitely the "data pillaging" that was degrading service, and not the fact that Twitter is now hosted on a Mac Mini under somebody's desk...

"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

I'm not saying you owe CEO billionaires or billionaire CEOs better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. If you'd please review and follow the site guidelines, we'd appreciate it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by throwaway1777 »

ben_w wrote: post #71
throwaway1777 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What in the heck are you even talking about? The internet would be nothing without tech companies.

At university I was using JANET, and in some ways it was better than what we have now. I don't think they'd have ever bothered inventing privacy violating trackers A/B testing (though if I'm wrong this is the best place to assert wildly and be quickly corrected).

Who cares. 99.99% of the world would never use something like that. They want apps on iPhones.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by RIMR »

the-printer wrote: post #75
RIMR wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet was conceived as a democratic haven, a realm where every individual had the potential to influence and shape their digital experience. However, a pervasive dip in technological literacy and a rising dependency on heavily-guided online pathways has begun to shift this balance. If this trend persists, corporations will continue to maintain their overarching dominion. A dynamic, user-driven community still…

> The internet was conceived as a democratic haven, a realm where every individual had the potential to influence and shape their digital experience. I have a hard time reconciling this perspective with history. Were any of these ideals present among the people/organizations responsible for the internet and the Web at the time that they were being developed? Or is sentiment like yours something that people adopted la…

I was speaking more to the ethos that arose as the internet was opened up to the public and began to evolve in the late 20th century. You are correct that this is a far cry from its initial conception as a military communications network (ARPANET).

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by veave »

kibwen wrote: post #102
Macha wrote: post #57

I will miss some of the Ukraine news as twitter was good for that, but that's about it for me at this point.

Here's a Mastodon server that mirrors many Ukraine-related Twitter accounts: https://fed.celp.de/@uanews (Who knows how long it will keep working, of course.)

Doesn't seem very neutral.
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