Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

  • Gray@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I wonder where city municipal Twitter accounts will move to for emergency communications now that Twitter is quickly becoming useless and irrelevant.

    • WestwardWinds@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’d really love if state actors moved from Twitter to something like NOSTR. The server relays would be cheap for municipalities to run and manage and it wouldn’t be tied to a private corporation. Kinda like how some EU countries had schools and departments move away from Office to FOSS alternatives.

    • flashmedallion@lemmy.nzEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      ActivityPub or whatever BlueSky calls theirs could end up being the perfect protocols for truly Public online spaces, managed by governments in the same sense that they manage public meatspace

      • voluble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I am sympathetic to the frustrations people are having around private corporations owning & controlling something as important to communications as social media. & when these companies are run by CEOs who are… suspect, it’s a reminder about just how fickle and agnostic to user experience their ecosystems really are. I mean in some sense, that’s why we’re here on the fediverse now, & not somewhere else. But I very much do not want the administration of public online spaces and networks to be the responsibility of the government. The potential for abuse is too great.

        It could be that the best solution for our moment in time is a handful of beneficent individuals running servers out of their closets. It’s crazy, but it’s kind of cool.