In hindsight, it seems absurd that we collectively trust a for-profit company to disseminate official information. Governments should probably take this opportunity to spin up their own Mastodon instances and migrate away from Twitter.
In hindsight, it seems absurd that we collectively trust a for-profit company to disseminate official information. Governments should probably take this opportunity to spin up their own Mastodon instances and migrate away from Twitter.
Germany of all countries has dippped into it: https://social.bund.de/
Not quite sure how this works without fax machines, but it does.
Well, Germany is officially a Federal Republic, it does make some sense they would join a federated universe :)
When we think back on how the Google Street View coverage looks in the EU when the majority of Germans objected to getting their houses filmed, there just might be a certain attitude against big tech companies.
Yeah, I'm with you 100%. The same thing could be said about reputable news organizations. And really, there's no better "verification" than people and agencies having their accounts on servers tied to domains that they own.
The European Commission is on Mastodon and are seeing how it goes there. They post fairly routinely.
I also liked seeing Thierry Breton there but it seems he's not active anymore :/
Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.
This is, and will always be, the main push of capitalism. This isn't some cute new term like "enshittification" or something, this is just good ol fashion rent seeking and it's capitalism working as intended.
In areas experiencing ongoing conflict where maintream media is either muzzled/ unable to keep up, twitter is used by people & journalists to provide updates. In countries with dictatorial governments where the mainstream media cannot be trusted , twitter (&other SM) are used to organize protests and discussions.
In countries with dictatorial governments where the mainstream media cannot be trusted , twitter (&other SM) are used to organize protests and discussions.
It was good for this, but it is not anymore
It still is. Let me explain, in India MSM cannot be trusted (they are called godi media aka modi's lapdog media) . Even though SM also routinely blocks & throttles opposition and jounalists to favour the majoritarian Hindutva (aka violent Hindu supremacists). they cannot block/ throttle everyone and information could still get out and reach people. Those who who didn't wish to be tracked could access this info without having to log in to twitter and risk their identity being exposed to the govt. Now that access to info is blocked.
TW: violence, SA
rn, one of our North-Eastern states Manipur, is experiencing large-scale & intense govt. backed communal & sectarian violence ( a govt. backed ethnic cleansing) The situation is ghastly.
100s have been killed, 4000+ weapons have been stolen from the army, girls & women have been gang-raped. the mob burned alive an injured 7 year old ichild, his mother and his aunt inside an ambulance. Since the violenece is govt. backed, neither the central govt nor the sstate govt is interested in quelling it and their pet godi media has either blanked it or is spouting the state govt.'s lies. The only way, the rest of India is able to know details (to organize civil society protests) is through SM.
Hey, there is some good art on Twitter. It's not all politics and Wendy
There are plenty of people on twitter to follow that are are good influence and creators of quality content, or just nice to keep track of what they're up to. No other platform unfortunately gives us the same amount of (casual) information about stuff like that. I hate what twitter's become just like the next person but there's just simply no alternative for casual user that provides the same experience.
Musk claimed that it's temporary. Either way this is an absolute disaster. This must be costing them insane amounts of money.
That whole tweet reads like a screenwriter shit it out to fill some tech mumbojumbo plot point for a police procedural.
He only cares because it's not him that's doing the pillaging.
Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.
Because that works so well for Pinterest right? I mean, we all have Pinterest accounts so we can access all that content on Pinterest don't we?
Oh... we don't? People add -site:pinterest.com to their google searches to avoid the site entirely? Well then... dang.
Personally, I don't get many search results from Pinterest
Or not anymore, anyway. Google's algorithm seems to have come to the conclusion that pinterest isn't worth linking as much anymore.
LinusTechTips just had an issue with this on WAN show tonight where Luke was trying to show a video on Twitter but he wasn't signed in on his stream laptop and Linus was remote so he couldn't share his screen.
Luckily the creator of the video they wanted to show had also posted it to YouTube so they were able to show it anyway, but it still disrupted the flow of the show and led them to not be able to use the platform as a news source.
This is a much more extreme version of the same reason I never used Quora. I'd be allowed on one page, but after that, clicking on any internal link in the site would push a "create an account" dialogue and wouldn't let me click off to see the content. The way around that was just reloading the page, but the irritation and tiny extra step was enough to stop me from browsing that site. Just checked right now and Quora doesn't do this on PC, but it does on my phone.
Now Twitter won't let you on the site at all without logging in.
Also... Quora just seems fucking wild
But higher conversion, I bet.
saw this too! looks like it broke a ton of tweet embeds too... Muskrat says its to mitigate scrapers but--this feels heavy handed
Extra traffic that their infrastructure can't handle since he fired all the people that knew how.
Like reddit, he also probably sees it as losing millions of dollars for data he wants to be paid for.
So losing money from degraded services and losing potential money from data being taken.
What's worth more - the loss of ad revenue from walled login, or the loss of potential revenue selling the data
There's no way they cause more damage than what they have done now. The vast majority of users (and eyes on ads, etc) are not going to have accounts. The majority of accounts that might pay money only do so because lots of people (who may not be logged in) see them.
Same I rarely went there to check specific people's posts. I have not made a twitter yet and certainly not going to make one now.
Good! This is a true death knell.
Good. Finally that one friend of mine will stop posting Twitter links and I can blacklist it again.
Holy shit, I thought it was just a bug on my end. Sometimes I wonder: what has ELON been smoking?
You don't smoke ketamine. And it definitely would not be responsible for the type of behavior he exhibits.
That's just called "extreme avarice," and "sociopathy."
Well, I guess we know he's been doing some weed already. ;)
As much as I hate Twitter, this is just ridiculous. Pretty much ALL the big social-media sites I've seen now require accounts. This is only gonna create walled gardens...
Reddit will likely follow suit, making it so you have to log into reddit premium to read reddit and you can only upvote 300x per day
I think the trend of many big tech companies nowadays to continue to further isolate themselves from user bases that made them a popular source to begin with, will eventually be to their own ruin. But you won't be able to convince greedy CEOs of this (at least not currently).
Oh, so it wasn't just me doing something wrong... Good? Guess I'll just have to wait for a screenshot of the post I want to see.
I'm locked out of my twit acct, so I can neither exit, nor read posts. LoL, what a joke.
I was wondering why I couldn’t load a few posts today.
That’s a special kind of way of screwing up your business. I deleted my account when Musk came in, and only used it to keep an eye on some support / companies that might post something.
Now I can’t even read stuff? I just won’t go anymore, and I hope this finalizes twitters march towards death.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Twitter was one of the few socials where government agencies could publish to the masses. Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.
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