• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
        35·
        2 years ago

        Because I have to live on the same planet as the people that spend their time on radicalization tools? Because the more closed platforms are used, the bigger the damage to the open internet they do? Because I can’t even get current information on my neighborhood without it being mediated through an oligarch’s platform because “that’s what everyone else uses”? Because even elected officials are posting information that’s not available to people that don’t sign up to a service that’s owned by neo-nazi?

        • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
          5·
          2 years ago

          You have a point but there’s a huge chunk of people that aren’t well informed enough (we already all know of the people that simply don’t care, I’m not talking about those) and still use it.

          I have to live on the same planet on people that do a lot of things that I don’t agree. That’s called living in a society.

          You all lose time and energy lecturing people that are already on Fedi because they for some reason that you do not know are engaging with a platform that you don’t like. It’s just like, we all know Twitter bad. Chill.

          • VivaLaSully@beehaw.org
            1·
            2 years ago

            I agree. Too many people use Twitter to just label them all shitty nazis. It’s as idiotic as blaming a whole religious groups for the actions of a few extremists.

            And your comment about the uninformed is spot on. Tons of people are just not thinking about all this stuff for one reason or another, and in a sense I don’t blame them. If it wasn’t for my child I’d love to bury my head in the sand and just try and get through this maelstrom called life.

            Like you said, most people just think Twitter sucks now and move on, at this rate musk will kill it for good in the next 5 years. That or it becomes a pathetic echo chamber like truth social.

            • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
              2·
              2 years ago

              I think it will die earlier, but who knows haha

              Thank you for the reply, I’m not as good as exposing my opinions as English is my second language, but you understood exactly what I meant!

              If people would consider that a lot of people are easily charmed by big corporations because they offer convenience/easy to use service mostly because they barely have time for themselves I think the world would be a better place.

      • ripcord@kbin.social
        10·
        2 years ago

        Why do we care if people support this Nazi platform or its owner?

        You might not, I wouldn’t call caring about it pedantic though.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        But how will people know I’m a cool edgy internet user if I don’t post “fuck twitter” and “AI bad” on every article without thinking that maybe people wanted to have a discussion about it?

      • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        as long as you know you’re still hanging out at the nazi bar, I guess there’s no further discussion.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    30·
    2 years ago

    It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

    Twitter knows people don’t want Twitter accounts so they try to coerce you into signing up to see what people are sharing.

    I’ve been using Squawker with great success, unlike all the other frontends that are constantly broken.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    The inevitable result of an egregiously rich man-baby trying to stick it to the “woke”. I left Twitter the moment that idiot took over. Twitter is a cesspool and a joke now. Time to move on.

  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org
    23·
    2 years ago

    It speaks volumes that people are so ensconced in their worldviews that sharing links on the open Web to sites that require an account to view content on causes zero cognitive dissonance.

    I’d be very curious to see the Venn diagram of people who see no problem spamming the web like this and people who complain about links to paywalled sites.

  • Zoidberg@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 years ago

    Twitter is a mess that we can see. Imagine all the shit hidden on Tesla software that we can’t.

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    Just out of curiosity, what happens when you switch it to x.com?

    edit: I guess it doesn’t matter because it looks like they decided to start forwarding x.com links to the twitter.com version now. That’s new.

  • Blake (he/him) @beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I presume this is on purpose considering they’re moving towards tweets not being public (account required to view). Showing the tweet in the preview would be an easy way to get way around this