I effectively thought this was always the case, since I don't use Twitter, and disabling JavaScript made the webpage unusable anyway.
You don't miss out on much though. Twitter just seems to be random hot takes and celebrity nonsense.
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I like how we keep pretending that any of this complicated shit is better than good old phpBB. There are no modern inventions for social interactions which made actual interactions better. They're all incomprehensible UX nightmares used mostly by the loud minority of users on the web (i.e. Twitter actively engages with only 7% of the entire internet user base) who censor each other and then fight over how to make it…
The problems with phpBB are at least two-fold: 1) discovery If I can’t find a forum, it’s not much use to me! 2) single sign-on I don’t want to make a million accounts for a million separate forums. I want one account that I can take with me to every forum. Both of these issues were solved by Reddit. This was its major value-add. The user base brought all of the remaining value with them. This is also the value of th…
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Facebook cut off access to Australian fire brigade pages, among others.
Facebook news is shutting off in Canada where there are currently wildfires. I'm leaving no comment on why.
How's USA based Facebook related to wildfires in Canada?
Check cbc.ca for the updates related to wildfires.
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#484Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter? I'm never, EVER making a twitter account. However publishers still communicate with me via tweets I could see. Now that I need an account to view tweets, publishers just have a smaller audience. I'll just see the screenshots on reddit anyway :)
He needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out (blue checks, advertising, etc.). So he's trying to make a quick buck from user-generated data now that the LLM rush is at an all time high. For that he needs to limit access to the data in the first place, otherwise nobody would be paying for publicly available data.
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#485Twitter also continues to unblock Elon for accounts that have blocked him. It's happened 3x to me in the last month or so. Currently still blocked.
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#486This 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. :(
> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
What sucks is people flocking like sheeps to centralized platforms that have not their best interests at heart.
Decentralization has been the answer from day 1 but people dont understand shit and make the same mistake over and over again
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To paraphrase Gilmore, “the net interprets [mandatory login and other access fuckery] as censorship and routes around it” If Twitter locks out more readers, people will stop posting and move elsewhere. If Reddit ejects the mods that made it successful, communities will evolve elsewhere. The forest will regrow and different paths will form, routing around the dying patches.
This is the main reason I don't use quora and pinterest. But I guess they are still around.
Also Experts Exchange.
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#488Good. I got rid of my Twitter account years ago. Not missed anything whatsoever.
Hopefully public institutions will now stop using it.
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#489So is it down just for me? Since for about an hour now site loading is aborted for more than 20 redirects. That is, not logged-in. – But, how do you log in, then?
Update: 2 hours later, still not loading with Safari/Desktop. (Is there any QA, at all?) FF works though and immediately goes to an otherwise blank page with a log-in dialog.
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The internet is most definitely not fine. There is an incoming tsunami of chat gpt generated bullshit that is going to make most open discussion sites more or less useless. Twitter requiring accounts and Reddit shutting down apis are both related: chat gpt et al are a threat to the social media business and ironically made possible because of the social media business. TBF I think we should all be exercising extreme…
Right, if you aren’t already doing this, you’re about to have to screen every single comment online in a fucked up game of ‘human or robot’
I mean this has been true for a while: we've all laboured under the fiction that any given screen name maps 1:1 with a human being.
On every large platform, this hasn't been the majority for a long time.