Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
What’s Twitter?
Finally. The other day while I was on a call with my girlfriend, she received an emergency alert on her phone (in the US) and wasn’t able to read it / find the message for some reason. Fearing the worst, I rushed to the city’s emergency Twitter account to see any updates, only for twitter to ask me to f-ing log in.
What a terrible feeling to have while going to the password manager, hands trembling with fear trying to sign in to the bloody & now-bastardized platform. Thankfully, it was just something related to bad weather.
Why it is a bad idea to offer public services on a for profit platform: A case study
Yeah, I’ve thought for a while now that these social media sites (along with utilities) should be publicly run rather than by for profit private companies (or publically traded).
Too bad we don’t really have a healthy public domain to run things like that. The fediverse is trying to do that by reducing the admins’ power, but it’s still a bunch of private instances that act public at the whim of their admins.
True but the difference is the ability to choose what you deem best. The government could simply run their own instances with their own rules (the german public television runs a mastodon instance for example) and supply information/services as they see fit.
It is irrelevant what other instance owners do or think about it because the instance owner is in control.
