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i have no idea why people who are concerned about privacy would use anything associated with elon musk.
The Gods forbid I try to literally read something
The real question is why people keep using Twitter despite how impossible it is to even visit the website
because unlike lemmy where its usually about following topics, twitter is about following people, and migration requires said people who theyre following to also migrate
While this is true, I think if this is a hassle for most people, then something is very wrong with the world
Umm, lemmy is a reddit like fediverse site. Mastodon is closer to what Twitter is. The only difference between the two is that twitter has a ranking algorithm whereas mastodon goes chronologically.
where in the post did i not (indirectly imply it). Thats why the adoption of Lemmy was more logical than the adoption of Mastodon. a Twitter clone requires the people being followed to also move. a reddit clone doesn't, hence why migration is easier here than over at Mastodon. It fundamentally is due to how its used. (topics vs people/orgs)
Until the creators of the content you need switch, it's one of if not the hub where the content is.
This would be easy to "solve" from the reader end if Nitter was still operational, but I haven't heard from the project or from any alternative in ages.
If you stop going to twitter to see the content, the creators would be forced to move. How important can the content be?
Dunno! I haven't been to Twitter since Elon bought it and activated our scorched-earth protocols. Twitter hasn't been accessible on any device in our network since then.
nitter.poast.org still works!
The project was using a way to bypass requiring a backing account to proxy the requests, but the API update broke that
The instances that chose (and choose) to go the extra mile by creating and maintaining proxy account(s) are the ones still working
If the instance gets too popular the twitter goons quickly figure out what the proxy account is and ban it, though. So it's a constant game of cat and mouse.
I see. That sucks.
Every so often someone posts something on Lemmy or somewhere else which contains a Twitter link that's interesting or relevant, and so there is value in me visiting it. Just because I don't "use" Twitter doesn't mean I don't end up reading a Twitter post every so often, because other people use it.