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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.
So? Neither am I.
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#163I wonder if we'll just start seeing people sharing accounts, and growing the (currently mostly underground) ecosystem around that.
There will probably also be tons more abandoned accounts halfway through the registration process, as the last time I remember trying to register one, I was asked to provide a phone number and noped out immediately.
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#164Currently the only email with human support is: press@twitter.com
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Most English-language content about the Ukranian war is slanted in favor of Ukraine. This is partially because of the relevant military alliances (Europe and the USA support Ukraine) but much more because Russians are the aggressor here. War isn't clean or simple, but there are clearly good and bad guys in this one. The Russian justifications for the war are 100% pretextual and invalid, just like they were in 2014.
I'm not sure why anyone wants "neutrality" to mean 50/50 airtime, instead of attempting to present the best available picture of the world, even if it's not favorable to one side.
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#166I will miss some of the Ukraine news as twitter was good for that, but that's about it for me at this point.
Yes, I was going back to Twitter for some days to follow updates on the Prigozhin road trip last week. But the quality of the news had noticeably deteriorated compared to the past, as Twitter's algorithm now promotes blue checks above everything else, so you now get updates from such notable experts on the Ukraine (as well as, I bet, many other topics) as David Sacks, Mario Nawfal, and Kim Dotcom.
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#167Musk 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!"
So much for those here & elsewhere who believed Musk’s lies about “radical free speech”.
The last few months showed he’ll silence people whenever he wants (his right— it’s his platform— but clearly he lied)
And now you can’t even consume that limited speech on Twitter without letting Twitter track every single thing you read and link you click on.
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#168Uggh. I only use twitter to follow critical (life-and-death) emergency broadcasts from our local fire department. Is there a viable alternative for them to use now that twitter is going to block most of our county’s residents?
cell broadcast for real emergencies
texts through registration on the site of the city hall, if cell braodcast isnt implemented by the phone company
public emergency sirens
radio
TV
actual website of the city hall
local newspaper
social fabric, with residents actually calling each others, for non emergency topics ?
(Hacker news ?)
Twitter has never been a great solution on its own. It could have contributed along with other channels of communication, so you should already have these.
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NY Transit officially stopped using Twitter. I hope others follows. Google results that require a login to view are cancerous
How long did it take for expertsexchange to finally stop showing in Google results despite being super obnoxious? Yeah you could scroll way to the bottom, but that only worked if you came there direct from Google.
It took them just as long as it took for them to put in a dash between experts and exchange.
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#170There might be a couple sides to the story if one was to view from a less emotional perspective. People who genuinely enjoy reading the site, but value their privacy have a good argument because now they've been denied their rights. On the other hand, there's always been a serious problem with bots scraping the site, which drives up costs. Another consideration is that they're trying to make the company profitable and sign-ins is a measurable metric for advertising and possibly being able to weed out some bad actors. Whether that will work out the way they intend remains to be seen.