Since today I've been https://nitter.it/ . Don't know how long it will work though.
Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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#52A lot of comments suggesting federation as the solution to centralisation. I believe this is a false dichotomy. I think Write Once, Publish Everywhere (including both centralised and federated) is much better. https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Different contexts call for different approaches. "Write once, publish everywhere" is ideal for read-only content. For a social network that is user-centric/identity-focused (like Twitter), federation makes sense; for a social network that is "topic-centric" (like Reddit) you can just have individual forums like the old days.
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#53A lot of comments suggesting federation as the solution to centralisation. I believe this is a false dichotomy. I think Write Once, Publish Everywhere (including both centralised and federated) is much better. https://indieweb.org/POSSE
How?
twitter and facebook make automating that difficult with their API restrictions.
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#54Putting 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.
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#55Does this mean companies will finally stop putting their official announcements only on Twitter? I already deleted my Twitter account months ago and I'm not about to create a new one.
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#56Putting 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.
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#57I will miss some of the Ukraine news as twitter was good for that, but that's about it for me at this point.
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#58Since today I've been https://nitter.it/ . Don't know how long it will work though.
Looks like nitter doesn't work anymore.
I am unable to find a working instance
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#59Earlier 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.
> No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid. Sounds like the issues we currently have with democracy.
Distributed power takes more effort. Of course people naturally trend towards lazy over the generations because it's easier and more efficient at the cost of everything it was initially supposed to be. And now we are where we are: executive branch agencies legislating.
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#60Earlier 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.
Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed This is human nature/greed unfortunately. Look at any natural (distributed) resource. The current economic system rewards this as well.
It is not an issue of human nature. Centralization just makes implementation waaaay easier. Distributed systems design is very hard.