In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

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    Twitter was one of the few socials where government agencies could publish to the masses. Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.

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      In hindsight, it seems absurd that we collectively trust a for-profit company to disseminate official information. Governments should probably take this opportunity to spin up their own Mastodon instances and migrate away from Twitter.

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          Judging by the number of German posts I see on here as well, it seems Germany is very receptive to the idea of the fediverse.

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            I’ve noticed a lot of German language fediverse content too. Does anyone know why German speakers are so keen on the fediverse?

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              According to Kbin’s Privacy Policy page many of the servers are in Germany.

              I actually like the way it’s written, “the Germany”, and hope it doesn’t get changed. :)

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              I guess it’s because we don’t like US platforms.

              We don’t like, that they have a monopoly on these platforms, we don’t like the idea of influencers, we don’t like cult of personality, we don’t like to loose control over our data, we don’t like English speakers as a whole, we don’t like US politics, we don’t like radical politics (even though I am a radical right, I hate everyone else who is radical right and more so the left. Actually I hate every political position), we also hate to loose our productivity for screentime and the list could go on.

              We Germans are control freaks. We have always been. In the past we tried to enforce it with weapons. Now we are desperately trying to enforce our values with generosity. Running around the world and throwing money around.

              We are longing for absolute control, centralised in Germany and not in some foreign third world country without healthcare (USA).

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        Yeah, I’m with you 100%. The same thing could be said about reputable news organizations. And really, there’s no better “verification” than people and agencies having their accounts on servers tied to domains that they own.

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      Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.

      This is, and will always be, the main push of capitalism. This isn’t some cute new term like “enshittification” or something, this is just good ol fashion rent seeking and it’s capitalism working as intended.