I find this more mildlyhumorous than infuriating. I'm looking forward to a new era where every news article no longer includes a string of embedded tweets. :) As a non-twitter user, this certainly doesn't encourage me to bother making an account.
It's honestly extremely humorous. I made a Twitter account in 2015 because it was a requirement for a emergency management crisis communications class I was taking for work. After the course ended I didn't log into it again until Musk bought Twitter. I knew it was going to be a hilarious dumpster fire and wanted to watch it melt down in real time. It hasn't disappointed. But this most recent thing about the rate limits is so hilariously dumb I figured I'd seen enough. Deleted the app off my phone yesterday.
As you point out, Twitter's death is going to mean a huge improvement to journalism. Someone on Lemmy mentioned yesterday how nice it is to not be on Reddit which had gotten to be like 80% Twitter screenshots. Twitter and Reddit diving like this at the same time is going to be a net positive.
Not sure how good it is that the only remaining Social Networks are owner by Meta (I don't count YT as a Social Media as I never use it to engage in comments there).
Edit: Ig there is tiktok now, too. Still it makes Metas slice of the Social Media pie bigger.
But Meta doesn't own social media. They have some social media platforms that are finding direct, open-source alternatives to their service...for FREE. The days of uncontested, corporate-controlled, AI-manipulated social media have come to an end.
I get it's funny if you like don't really have a use for twitter, but it sucks in some ways because twitter is one of the few 'global' platforms. I can follow and keep up to date with artists over in Japan because a lot of them use twitter and that's accessible to me. Remove twitter however and their main posting platform defaults to something like pixiv or niconico...which isn't very open and receptive to anyone who isn't a Japanese speaker. And I'm sure anyone from the west who has their head in more Chinese or Korean spheres is having the same issue...and vice versa. I know apparently sites like tumblr aren't very popular over in Japan because of how it works and at least from what I've seen in the last few days, that's becoming a lot of artist's emergency second platform
I never understood why they embedded tweets into articles instead of using screenshots. I figured it was a terms and conditions thing from Twitter. But it leaves them prone to a tweet being deleted or, you know, what's happening now.
it made sense when it was making it trustworthy, harder to fake a link to the original than a screenshot
used to get a public view from those links which were usually click-bait level. ad block made it readable. then I got a twitter account only to be booted after 3 months for some obscure community offense. now links go to a login paywall. useless. bye tw
I find this more mildlyhumorous than infuriating. I'm looking forward to a new era where every news article no longer includes a string of embedded tweets. :) As a non-twitter user, this certainly doesn't encourage me to bother making an account.
It's honestly extremely humorous. I made a Twitter account in 2015 because it was a requirement for a emergency management crisis communications class I was taking for work. After the course ended I didn't log into it again until Musk bought Twitter. I knew it was going to be a hilarious dumpster fire and wanted to watch it melt down in real time. It hasn't disappointed. But this most recent thing about the rate limits is so hilariously dumb I figured I'd seen enough. Deleted the app off my phone yesterday.
As you point out, Twitter's death is going to mean a huge improvement to journalism. Someone on Lemmy mentioned yesterday how nice it is to not be on Reddit which had gotten to be like 80% Twitter screenshots. Twitter and Reddit diving like this at the same time is going to be a net positive.
Not sure how good it is that the only remaining Social Networks are owner by Meta (I don't count YT as a Social Media as I never use it to engage in comments there).
Edit: Ig there is tiktok now, too. Still it makes Metas slice of the Social Media pie bigger.
But Meta doesn't own social media. They have some social media platforms that are finding direct, open-source alternatives to their service...for FREE. The days of uncontested, corporate-controlled, AI-manipulated social media have come to an end.
I get it's funny if you like don't really have a use for twitter, but it sucks in some ways because twitter is one of the few 'global' platforms. I can follow and keep up to date with artists over in Japan because a lot of them use twitter and that's accessible to me. Remove twitter however and their main posting platform defaults to something like pixiv or niconico...which isn't very open and receptive to anyone who isn't a Japanese speaker. And I'm sure anyone from the west who has their head in more Chinese or Korean spheres is having the same issue...and vice versa. I know apparently sites like tumblr aren't very popular over in Japan because of how it works and at least from what I've seen in the last few days, that's becoming a lot of artist's emergency second platform
I never understood why they embedded tweets into articles instead of using screenshots. I figured it was a terms and conditions thing from Twitter. But it leaves them prone to a tweet being deleted or, you know, what's happening now.
it made sense when it was making it trustworthy, harder to fake a link to the original than a screenshot
used to get a public view from those links which were usually click-bait level. ad block made it readable. then I got a twitter account only to be booted after 3 months for some obscure community offense. now links go to a login paywall. useless. bye tw