thetechtutor, 10 months ago

@simevidas For many other reasons prior to this catastrophic decision, I deleted my #TwitterAccounts –all 3 of them - and joined the #TwitterMigration to #Mastodon

I love it here. Im relieved that I won’t be able to view media from embedded tweets anymore: I don’t want to give a platform run by a #billionaire #whitesupremacist any more clicks.

I understand this impacts many #journalists who use the platform to report #news. I therefore hope they will migrate over to Mastodon.

ShinyBlueThing, 10 months ago

@simevidas I'm still sort-of on twitter (I have a few friends who are scared to move or really set in their ways), and I posted an FYI about that. Maybe this will get folks to move elsewhere.

aroom, 10 months ago

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Sassafrazz, 10 months ago

@aroom @simevidas Exactly. One of the few reasons I’ve seen tweets linked lately, was to local fire, police, weather, school etc. messages.

They should take a harder look at bailing out from the bird site to alternatives. If they haven’t started to do that already.

VHasch, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Elon should just give up and lock the door unless making a secretive platform for the next insurrection is his goal.

$44 billion would be a bargain to take down the US.

JustinDerrick, 10 months ago

@simevidas Billions of inbound links from across the entire internet are now essentially dead, eliminating another revenue stream, and sprinting into obscurity.

If I didn’t know any better, I would say that someone is being paid to purposely scuttle the bird site.

jhv, 10 months ago

@simevidas So it's a walled garden now? JFC, WTF. 😭

squeevening, 10 months ago

@simevidas should be the death knell. Journalists won't be able to embed tweets.

weyoun6, 10 months ago

@simevidas it makes sense from their perspective and it was always just a matter of time. Remember, scraping is legal if the content is visible without authentication. Musk wants the wall around "his" content and believes he can follow the path of Facebook, Instagram, et al.

nimbus5000, 10 months ago

@simevidas

I can tell you this ... I ain't logging in.

FinchHaven, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Yeah, I went so far as to open a new private window and search for "Musk tweets"

I couldn't even view #ElonMusk's profile page on #Twitter without logging in first

Which I had no interest in doing

No great loss

luism, 10 months ago

@simevidas I am still wondering why are people still using it.

TritTriton, 10 months ago

@simevidas Hopefully it’s just another “bug” among all that occurred since “this guy” took T over, and it will be fixed soon.

But it’s still a clear reminder that nobody can count on Twitter anymore as a communication channel.

zachleat, 10 months ago

@simevidas Woof. This is a very bad thing.