What’s Twitter?
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Why isn't it just federating though? Do I have to create an account just to read the Twitter instance?
Except it's like... completely centralized and controlled by a single entity? Absolutely absurd if you ask me.
BlueSky, Mastadon, and now Threads apparently.
Not that much of a surprise that they would. Why would anyone bother joining and using Twitter if they can't see what it is that they're signing up for, or justify why they should join in the first place?
I don't know, it seems to work for Pinterest.
I've been avoiding Pinterest URLs for so long, couldn't even tell you what the site is now. The login requirement definitely made me proactively avoid them and just treat all their links as spam in the search results.
Finally. The other day while I was on a call with my girlfriend, she received an emergency alert on her phone (in the US) and wasn't able to read it / find the message for some reason. Fearing the worst, I rushed to the city's emergency Twitter account to see any updates, only for twitter to ask me to f-ing log in.
What a terrible feeling to have while going to the password manager, hands trembling with fear trying to sign in to the bloody & now-bastardized platform. Thankfully, it was just something related to bad weather.
Why wouldn't you/her just call the emergency number your city has? That's incredibly easy to look up, probably a little faster than searching through Twitter.
Or even check the cities website, for that matter.
Idk, to me that's like going to Facebook to call the police. Why would you do that?
My city just had a major storm which killed power and cell data for a ton of people. Even when the power was back on, you couldn't use your cell phone except on WiFi because the towers were still down. Phone calls just wouldn't get through. Even texts often didn't get through- the pharmacy texted me on Monday to tell me my pills were ready and I went there yesterday to ask why they weren't ready yet.
Would being able to see information on Twitter solved these problems? Of course not, but it might have at least kept me informed.
Same thing, man. Go to the source. Why are you relying on a middleman like Twitter?
If the phone isn't working, how am I supposed to do that?