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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've thought for a while now that these social media sites (along with utilities) should be publicly run rather than by for profit private companies (or publically traded).

Too bad we don't really have a healthy public domain to run things like that. The fediverse is trying to do that by reducing the admins' power, but it's still a bunch of private instances that act public at the whim of their admins.

[–] amki@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

True but the difference is the ability to choose what you deem best. The government could simply run their own instances with their own rules (the german public television runs a mastodon instance for example) and supply information/services as they see fit.

It is irrelevant what other instance owners do or think about it because the instance owner is in control.