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Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11 (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 327 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Just like no one wants to sign into Twitter to read one tweet.

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  • [+] -111 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I mean, I don't like that either but it doesn't affect links to tweets.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It does however affect getting updates from government agencies, and others who insist on only disseminating real-time information to the public via Twitter.

    For instance: https://twitter.com/WakaKotahiWgtn

    This is the account for traffic events (road closures, traffic accidents, etc) in my city. Not signed in, the latest visible post is from February 2023.

    Since I don't have a twitter account, this is now functionally useless.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    the latest visible post is from February 2023

    If you scroll down far enough, there are posts from March and August, but they were "less popular" tweets. Incredibly annoying move by twitter. Who wants to regularly view tweets sorted by "Top All Time"?

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

    Go to the city's website, they should still have that information accessable via government sites. Buried, but it should still exist.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While true, the point is that Twitter does require sign in to view content, regardless of that information is elsewhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you tried contacting your government for this issue? From my experience public services are often open about Mastodon once they realize it's the same thing as Twitter, but accessible to everyone.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I have not. I personally don't live in a region where disaster notices are often necessary and I don't have offspring that I have to care for that may be affected, so I'm not really the demographic for the service. I do hope more and more start branching out to the likes of Mastodon or maybe better yet, hosting their own instances.

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