But like hydra, cut off one head, and two shall spawn. It should never be illegal to proxy another site, if the information content from that site was originally user generated. Using copyright as a shield is just a legal mechanism, and i don't believe it is just.
Therefore, it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this.
nielsbot•58m ago
It would be nice if every logged in twitter user's viewed tweets were transmitted to a decentralized aggregation service for all to view freely.
techteach00•28m ago
Why? Let the world yell into the void. Nobody is listening anymore.
WithinReason•3m ago
[delayed]
georgemcbay•37m ago
> it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this.
While I support civil disobedience, it would be more impactful if people just stopped using twitter.
I suspect this may be an unpopular take, but this late in the game I simply think less of people who continue to use twitter while complaining about how bad it has gotten.
Of course it got bad. And it is continually going to get worse. It is never again going to be that place that only lives on in people's rose-colored nostalgia.
But... they can leave it. The world will keep turning, and in fact will improve.
ButlerianJihad•27m ago
> if people just stopped using [X]
That’s not how it works, and you don’t understand the Network Effects at work here.
My point is that people can choose not to use twitter despite the network effects.
I don't not use twitter because I think it hurts twitter. I don't use twitter because I know using it will hurt me.
Any politician/business/service/whatever that only makes announcements exclusively on twitter simply won't reach me, and I'm fine with that. I can't think of a single instance where missing such an announcement directly on the twitter timeline would have changed my life in a significant way.
it's funny. Twitter lost so much of it's power and reach when it went behind a login type paywall. if people can't see what's posted, why post it lol? The super majority of people see tweets logged out. Dead platform.
rf15•22m ago
Won't this lead to even less people looking at the platform? Are they trying to cut off the cultists inside from any outside observability? Doesn't that directly result in less power/influence for Musk?
conartist6•19m ago
Yes. Since they've made clear that I'm unwelcome, I'll also simply skip over reading their content wherever it is embedded on the internet now.
chii•1h ago
But like hydra, cut off one head, and two shall spawn. It should never be illegal to proxy another site, if the information content from that site was originally user generated. Using copyright as a shield is just a legal mechanism, and i don't believe it is just.
Therefore, it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this.
nielsbot•58m ago
techteach00•28m ago
WithinReason•3m ago
georgemcbay•37m ago
While I support civil disobedience, it would be more impactful if people just stopped using twitter.
I suspect this may be an unpopular take, but this late in the game I simply think less of people who continue to use twitter while complaining about how bad it has gotten.
Of course it got bad. And it is continually going to get worse. It is never again going to be that place that only lives on in people's rose-colored nostalgia.
But... they can leave it. The world will keep turning, and in fact will improve.
ButlerianJihad•27m ago
That’s not how it works, and you don’t understand the Network Effects at work here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450055
georgemcbay•10m ago
I don't not use twitter because I think it hurts twitter. I don't use twitter because I know using it will hurt me.
Any politician/business/service/whatever that only makes announcements exclusively on twitter simply won't reach me, and I'm fine with that. I can't think of a single instance where missing such an announcement directly on the twitter timeline would have changed my life in a significant way.