In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
Twitter was one of the few socials where government agencies could publish to the masses. Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.
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.
Judging by the number of German posts I see on here as well, it seems Germany is very receptive to the idea of the fediverse.
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 :/
“Oh no, I can’t read anything on Twitter!”
-No one with good mental health.
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.
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.
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.
Musk claimed that it’s temporary. Either way this is an absolute disaster. This must be costing them insane amounts of money.
“we were getting data pillaged” … LOL I wonder what on earth that means in his feeble mind.
“Temporary” in corpo-speak means permanent if it generates profit and there-were-some-technical-issues if it doesn’t, so this is just Felon Muskrat testing the waters.
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.