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Twitter dies as Musk wins war against own service

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all this does is make me completely uninterested in twitter. at least with nitter i would make an effort to use it to look at the few accounts that stayed in twitter that i liked

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Hopefully, this ends up being good for the fediverse - if you have to log in to view posts, you’re probably much less likely to create an account, and maybe just a little bit likely to at least just creep on mastodon posts…

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All they achieved was make me not ever engage with their website in any capacity. I’m not making an account, I’m not logging in. If I can’t see the content without logging in, or with a proxy, I’ll just never see it. It’s no sweat off my back if I can’t see some random porn someone linked in a group chat.

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It amazes me how much effort people will go to in order to experience the shitshow that TwitXter is.

Just avoid entirely.

The sooner it dies the better society will be

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it is not as easy as it sounds because public services and figures send their news/notifications through X

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Weird, I’ve survived without it for 8 years.

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Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

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They only do that because there is an audience there.

If we demand they use better methods of notifying the ublic, that draw for viewers/readers won’t be there either.

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