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This effectively breaks 15 years of links to tweets posted all over the Internet. Just another reason to keep the web open. This takes Twitter to the same leve
by ciroduran 3y ago
This effectively breaks 15 years of links to tweets posted all over the Internet. Just another reason to keep the web open.
This takes Twitter to the same level as Facebook, a website that only lives of its internal posts, where no young people open accounts, and where eventually the only ones who post are the ones who opened an account in its time.
- petemir 3y agoIt's already having some effects on my googling, just like the reddit blackout.
- senttoschool 3y agoI wonder if recent Reddit/Twitter events might have finally given blockchain a real problem to solve. The problem is centralized entities can take away access to data you generated at anytime. They can also ban you for whatever reason they want. So if your livelihood depends on these services, it can cause a huge disruption. If Reddit/Twitter's data is stored on a blockchain, then anyone can build a client to access that data and Twitter would essentially have much less power. The problem I see is that blockchains are too slow, and too expensive for mass products like Reddit and Twitter. Heck, I'm sure it's already a huge challenge for centralized databases to have as much data as Twitter/Reddit - let alone a decentralized one. Maybe at some point, we'll have a quantum computer breakthrough and blockchains performance is solved for use cases like this.
- progval 3y agoPeople can archive data from Reddit/Twitter, and Bitcoin/Ethereum... nodes can prune old blocks and stop serving them.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoWhen people say "blockchains are a solution in search of a problem" they aren't kidding huh? We already have decentralized Twitter, it's called Mastodon (we have more of those as well).
- justcool393 3y agoit really hasn't.
- mvdtnz 3y agoWhat if I want to delete one of my own tweets? I do this regularly.