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X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
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You mean to tell me Elon's little neo-Nazi shithole might not be properly moderating content to stay on the right side of hate speech laws? ...Yeah that's not surprising.
What's surprising is that the US does nothing about it
What I think is surprising is how many still use the fucking platform. It's completely neutered. Companies shouldn't be posting news to it because unless you have an account you probably can't fucking view it.
I don't really see a difference in Twitter pre- and post-Musk. It is literally built for this, for broadcasting with minimal discussion afterwards. I left Twitter a bit before Musk got it because I realized Reddit was better for discussing and obtaining informed opinions. And now I left Reddit.
That's not what I mean. I mean literally not being able to access stuff when you're not logged in. How am I supposed to know what this company is posting?
I think this could have been the normal evolution of the social network under anyone else than Musk. I repeat, it has always been built this way, for broadcasting. And I am sorry to fire on the Red Cross, but Mastodon is just the same: the only reason it is somewhat better than what Twitter was is that it is novel and barely populated and therefore elicits what in Italy we call mountain path courtesy.
So just to be clear what old mate you are responding to here is trying to say is that until a few months ago, and for over a decade, me and him could click on a tweet and see what it was about, i used to do this all the time on the Guardian and I haven't had a twitter account in a very long time.
Doesn't matter what you think, what mastodon does and what you do with alpine wildlife. The fact that companies and outlets like the guardian still do this to this day, that they still post shit on twitter than most of us can't (or don't want, or both) access is weird they should reconsider their communication choices and move on.
As they say in Italy che cos'hanno al posto del cervello?
I mean we can all still look at (most) reddit posts if we don't have an account currently.
This whole "forcing us to have an account just to look at one post" is so blatantly and obviously a ploy to get your data. It's kinda disgusting. I would have a tiny bit more respect for Twitter if they just said outright "hey, you need to login to see any of this content so we can get your data. Thanks and fuck you."
The funny part is that I can live without shitter no problem. I wish major organisations would stop using it but if I cannot open a like I'm just meh. They lost the little traffic I was giving them.
While I stopped browsing reddit since moving to lemmy, I do still access old posts and that'ssomething I cannot replace that easily. Later today I'll do some research on some niche topics that I am sure will lead me to old reddit posts. Nice to be able to do it without an account (for now). And when they force me, I'll just open a new one for lunch lurking, not using my old one(s) anymore