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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

ibejoeb wrote: post #81
ModernMech wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notably this was called a “temporary emergency measure” by Elon Musk — yet another promise he couldn’t keep https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-now-needs-users-s...

I'm fine with the criticism, but what's the solution? And what makes this a uniquely Elon problem when the rest of the social media industry does the same? There was backlash when the models learned computer programming from open source repositories, so I wonder if the same applies to casual speech.

Because it worked without an account before Elon came to Twitter and changed it?

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by bsimpson »

Are there any Instagram equivalents that don't suck?

People love to virtue signal by linking to Twitter proxies, but Instagram is still a walled garden that all sorts of useful information (event details, restaurant menus, etc.) is locked inside. I occasionally have luck with whatever the top Google results are, but they're all encrusted with dodgy ads.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by nlitened »

seahorseemoji wrote: post #86
celsoazevedo wrote: post #45

Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view. We can't read a multi-part tweet (or follow-ups from the author) or check the latest updates from an official account without an account, which requires a mobile phone number and sometimes extra verifications. A digital "town square" can't require an account and a phone number to…

I wish I understood why the majority of the AI discussions happen on Twitter/X.

Network effect. Most people worth discussing with are already there, so more people join the discussion there, and so on.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by Pedro_Ribeiro »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #101
ibejoeb wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fine with the criticism, but what's the solution? And what makes this a uniquely Elon problem when the rest of the social media industry does the same? There was backlash when the models learned computer programming from open source repositories, so I wonder if the same applies to casual speech.

Because it worked without an account before Elon came to Twitter and changed it?

Would've happened either way. Data is more valuable and also trivial to scrape now.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by moomoo11 »

seahorseemoji wrote: post #86
celsoazevedo wrote: post #45

Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view. We can't read a multi-part tweet (or follow-ups from the author) or check the latest updates from an official account without an account, which requires a mobile phone number and sometimes extra verifications. A digital "town square" can't require an account and a phone number to…

I wish I understood why the majority of the AI discussions happen on Twitter/X.

why not?

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

#109

Post by ghusto »

kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address.

It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all governement communication through it so everyone has to have it installed, and you have an instant EU-wide userbase. From there, people will naturally start to use it between themselves.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by unethical_ban »

oriettaxx wrote: post #87

https://www.autistici.org offer great services with very strong effort to protect privacy, for more then 20 years, now... and all is done by volunteers. Very proud of their work, and kudos for affecting how the world is handling information and their will to do good

Now designated a terror organization by the current US administration.
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