I have a long commute in and out of a large city. Since I spend so much time on the road, I always try to get the details of Amber Alert notifications to be on the lookout for vehicles used in abductions. I guess I can’t do that anymore since Twitter requires an account to see Amber Alerts. Hopefully my state finds another platform to post them.

  • AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Twitter’s super power was in being a public commons. Now that all tweets are effectively locked behind a login, it’s lost that power.

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      1 year ago

      Agencies that built around that openness: “How could our reliance on a private entity have backfired on us like this?”

      Also those same agencies: “Does anyone know a free private company we can build upon now?”