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Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read (www.androidpolice.com)
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In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

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[–] 62 points 3 years ago (16 children)

In hindsight, it seems absurd that we collectively trust a for-profit company to disseminate official information. Governments should probably take this opportunity to spin up their own Mastodon instances and migrate away from Twitter.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

    Germany of all countries has dippped into it: https://social.bund.de/

    Not quite sure how this works without fax machines, but it does.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Judging by the number of German posts I see on here as well, it seems Germany is very receptive to the idea of the fediverse.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I’ve noticed a lot of German language fediverse content too. Does anyone know why German speakers are so keen on the fediverse?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I guess it’s because we don’t like US platforms.

    We don’t like, that they have a monopoly on these platforms, we don’t like the idea of influencers, we don’t like cult of personality, we don’t like to loose control over our data, we don’t like English speakers as a whole, we don’t like US politics, we don’t like radical politics (even though I am a radical right, I hate everyone else who is radical right and more so the left. Actually I hate every political position), we also hate to loose our productivity for screentime and the list could go on.

    We Germans are control freaks. We have always been. In the past we tried to enforce it with weapons. Now we are desperately trying to enforce our values with generosity. Running around the world and throwing money around.

    We are longing for absolute control, centralised in Germany and not in some foreign third world country without healthcare (USA).

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, I'm with you 100%. The same thing could be said about reputable news organizations. And really, there's no better "verification" than people and agencies having their accounts on servers tied to domains that they own.

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