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MrFunnyMoustache ,

And yet Fritter doesn’t work right now. Are they blocking 3rd party apps like Reddit, or is it something with Fritter?

teolan ,
@teolan@lemmy.world avatar

Fritter works by scraping the twitter website, so it should be working. The only issue is however that the website changed a lot so I guess the scraping strategies don’t work as well now.

BendyLemmy ,
@BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml avatar

Not here…

Zoldyck ,

Exactly. Idk why, but I still need to log in.

cmeio ,

Did you check an individual linkend Tweet? That works for me at least. Everything else, like looking for a user, still needs a login, I think…

Yoz ,

These companies know that the power is with the people. We just need regulars who are not tech educated to get themselves educated and see how the power shifts from these companies to FOSS and decentralized platforms.

jecxjo ,
@jecxjo@midwest.social avatar

You’re talking about an issue humanity has had since forever, getting people to do what is best for their own interests. In business they actually needed to create the concept of a union just so that people would organize in a way to help all workers. Without that force driving them together what you get is the Reddit 48hr blackout. People can’t stop using the service long enough to invoke actual change because their addiction to Reddit was too high.

This rollback of login requirements was because Google stopped indexing them. The only power the people had in the Twitter situation was being the consumers of Google who were being directed away from Twitter.

Cabrio ,

It’s a problem of collective consciousness, the majority of humanity are about 30-100 years behind the bleeding edge of education and comprehension. It takes a long time to bring all those people up to speed. There’s a reason they say “Science advances one funeral at a time.” Because new lessons aren’t learned by old people, why would you relearn something you already know?

jecxjo ,
@jecxjo@midwest.social avatar

This younger generation is the first to really get it though. And yet personal wants still trump actual progress.

Poob ,

My eyeballs are scraping this thread at this very instant!

GreenCrush ,
@GreenCrush@lemmy.world avatar

This is hilarious. You don’t change your mind about a new policy unless it was absolutely terrible and threatened your business. I can’t see twitter surviving much longer; how are they even going to make money?

Taako_Tuesday ,

They could probably survive off of elon’s surplus cash alone for a few years

Squizzy ,

He doesn’t have he got bailed out to buy that sinking ship

tookmyname ,

Or Saudi or Qatari slave state money.

aljazeera.com/…/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to…

Son_of_dad ,

But he’s a deadbeat who doesn’t pay his bills like Trump. He’s squatting sand isn’t paying rent, so there’s no way he’s using his own money for that

Tyfud ,

Plus, people should really understand how someone being a billionaire works. They don’t have billions of dollars sitting in a bank account somewhere.

They leverage their investments to take out short term loans or the like against their invested capital.

Musk is a billionaire on paper. Like most. His wealth is represented by his ownership shares of Tesla, speculation on the valuation of space x and solar city.

He’s not selling his interests or shares in Tesla to buy things here. He’s leveraging them.

Similar to how you can have your house paid off, and then get a new mortgage against your house for an injection of capital. You’re leveraging the equity you have in your home. Which is based on the current perceived value of your home in the current market.

If the market changes drastically, so does the amount you can leaverage.

TL;DR; he does not have cash sitting around he can burn through to actually pay bills, and he’s absolutely not going to pay his Google cloud hosting bill with his Tesla shares unless absolutely forced to (at which point he’d probably just sell Twitter).

SulaymanF ,

I saw one reporter describe it as if Costco decided to make every checkout “10 items or less.”

Dohnakun ,

What is a Costco?

nedrev ,

Assuming you’re genuinely asking. It’s a retail store primarily in the US that is for buying items in bulk.

FluffymcIronface ,

Also trying to establish itself in the EU. One store is in Sweden now.

Raphael ,
@Raphael@lemmy.world avatar

Irrelevant. Nitter still not working.

ghariksforge ,

One does not simply mess with Google!

Pissy_Badger ,
@Pissy_Badger@pawb.social avatar

I still can’t see any tweets. Maybe it’s a Canada thing…

HowManyNimons ,

I still can’t see any tweets. Because I value my mental health and don’t go looking for the horrible things.

Pissy_Badger ,
@Pissy_Badger@pawb.social avatar

Granted. That’s why I got myself permanently banned from Twitter.

Burstar ,
@Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m in Canada and can see a tweet IF it is directly linked. If you click on the person’s feed it says “there’s a problem”. So it is not as useless as before but still is for any sort of emergency or critical news dissemination.

Pissy_Badger ,
@Pissy_Badger@pawb.social avatar

I see, now, yeah. Pretty terrible.

vitriolix ,
@vitriolix@lemmy.ml avatar

always be fail whalin’

PlutoniumAcid ,
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world avatar

I love your username! It’s so hard to come up with a good one, but that’s one is great!

Binderfullofpizza ,

Twitter 2.0 is really just a startup company

Akasazh ,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

I read that as standup comedy, and I’ll stick with that

moneyinphx ,

Elon is speedrunning bankruptcy right now.

OwlHamster ,

Still doesn’t work for me?

Carnelian ,

It may be rolling out, there was a point after the change was initially implemented when some people reported still being able to get in

OwlHamster ,

Ahh, that makes sense

Hiccup ,

He fucked around and found out.

trambe ,
@trambe@lemmy.world avatar

Damn it’s like whoever is taking these decisions has no idea what he’s doing

JudgeDredd ,

Better Late than never…

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