Technology

Seems like a big moment in what the internet will be.

Early on the internet thrived on being open. Lots of amazing builders embodied the idea of open source collaborative environments and the website's other people built on their infrastructure and tech followed those principles.

Now we're in a new era. The business class saw how popular these spaces and communities were and bought them out. Now were in a place were they lock everything up, force scarcity fucking it all up

I thought Twitter had always required a sign in. I've never had a Twitter account so I'm always locked out.

I don't know if I should be laughing or crying. It's readily apparent that Musk and Spez don't understand their product. Like, at all. Governments, politicians, NGOs, and businesses use Twitter because of the broad audience. It works as a platform for announcements because anyone can access it.

Locking it down to only Twitter users kills this. It isn't going to help ad revenue either to reduce the audience.

I saw some people say this was a tech issue and not a policy change, and that better be the case if Twitter wants to survive. They lose their last competitive advantage otherwise.

Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.