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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by nologic01 »

KSteffensen wrote: post #35
agluszak wrote: post #30

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/

This is one of the biggest scandals nobody is talking about.

Any talk about privacy awareness is invalidated when public sector entities endorse these platforms and encourage citizens to participate.

Any talk about the public sector not picking winners is a joke when they explicitly advertise and provide links on their websites to particular platforms.

We have normalized alot of abnormal stuff in the past decade...

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by MrOwen »

hkt wrote: post #96
darkarmani wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Centralisation vs decentralisation in tech is pretty much irrelevant. What is relevant is governance. We allow billionaires and venture capitalists to govern a commons that we all rely on. Surprise surprise, it isn't going well. The solution is not to have (difficult to scale) federated alternatives. The solution is collective ownership. Imagine for a moment that the multinationals that are increasingly in charge of…

Can you not have both? Each federated instance costs money to upkeep. Some instances could elect for collective ownership or even elect to donate for develop (probably this needs to be carefully considered to deter corporate ownership). I like your idea but I think there needs to be an interim step and for now, maybe that's federation. Maybe we'll get to the place you speak of... one day.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by renewiltord »

As an amusing aside, you can search for "username twitter" for many of the people posting here on hn.algolia.com and get a sequence of "I don't use Twitter" then "This Twitter account is decent" in a short span of time which makes me suspect many of these claims are not true.

For my part, this is an annoyance since I use nitter's API to feed Tweets to a Slack I share with friends.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by j-bos »

nunez wrote: post #110

This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(

I feel the same. Had 4 twitter accounts I followed on nitter after losing my account, and now, not sure. Feels like a time of (light) mourning.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by montenegrohugo »

nunez wrote: post #110

This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(

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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by deweywsu »

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!"

Like anyone believes for a second anything that comes out of this guy's mouth. Even if true, who cares Elon? You're so good at shooting yourself in the foot, you might consider being a professional Russian Roulette player.
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