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Written by Ben on 2024-12-30 at 14:46

The gated empires of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter are so weird. Someone shares a link, it takes ages to load, only to show me a big login screen without which I cannot read it. Every time I would feel anger if I weren't so confused. Why are people doing this? Why are people sharing their insights or lives like this? Don't they know the internet is so much more than that?

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Written by Ben on 2024-12-30 at 14:49

And then I think that I am the one who doesn't get it. It's all about distribution, of course. Which is why these posts are read by maybe a handful. All the others are just happily doing something else after they opened and closed their fediverse app for a few minutes until they felt pleasantly bored by it again...

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Written by ira on 2024-12-30 at 15:06

@b3n Maybe we should all band together & open one, shared account (sharing username & password) on all of these gated empire social media sites so we can access the info we need from time to time (e.g., when/where a band's concerts are).

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Written by Ben on 2025-01-02 at 14:04

@iraantlers To be honest I do have an account on most of them. But I also happen to be logged out on whatever in-app browser I open the link… and I’ve yet to find an article where even using my password manager to log in doesn’t feel too much to do. I’m usually not lazy when it comes to websites, mind you, it’s more a principled decision.

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