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I hope services like HN and others rapidly go through their database of links that point to Twitter and mirror the content off into actually-public archives. Be
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
I hope services like HN and others rapidly go through their database of links that point to Twitter and mirror the content off into actually-public archives. Because it's only a matter of time before work-arounds like Nitter and others go belly-up.
There's unfortunately massive amount of content produced and reproduced by people who imagined they were doing so on a public forum. But it's increasingly going behind a wall of 403s and obfuscation.
For a few days in July non-Twitter members couldn't see anything there. Now they can only see the primary post and not the threads. That's Musk's right to do that, but the right thing to do is for people to clue in that this isn't a public resource, and if they want their content to be broadly available they'll need to find other places to put it. And not just for posterity, but for the present as well.
One thing I don't understand is how the advertisers who nominally fund Twitter (or did) are fine with this. Seems like deliberately kneecapping the reach and impressions.