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People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

I'm not down with the perpetual victim-blaming against X/Twitter users here on Lemmy.

Sources like campaigns, news outlets, authors, studios, engineers, actors, comedians, etc. post on there because they basically have to -- if they want to get the word out, that is.

Consumers go there to read from the sources because they basically have to. While each source may have their own separate blog or whatever, X/Twitter is pretty much the only place that unifies those feeds. (I know, I miss the heyday of RSS too.)

Expecting people to just "take the hit" and go dark on their communications so we can build up alternatives to X/Twitter is not an acceptable recommendation.

What we need to do is:

Make it illegal to block third-party clients from interoperating with services
Compel providers of a certain size to expose a first-party API
Make it legal to reverse-engineer APIs so they can't just make the first-party API suck and call it a day
Then we integrate X/Twitter into the fediverse, so you can start using something else and still keep your X/Twitter stuff

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Victim blaming is a little extreme way to describe it, but yeah I don't blame politicians for using it, but I absolutely will blame them for exclusively using it and letting their media be controlled by a private entity, especially one that is no longer publicly accessible.

POSSE (publish [on your] own site, syndicate everywhere) is the way to go. Don't assume everyone is just using a platform, especially if you're providing a public or essential service.