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Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read

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Extra traffic that their infrastructure can't handle since he fired all the people that knew how.

Like reddit, he also probably sees it as losing millions of dollars for data he wants to be paid for.

So losing money from degraded services and losing potential money from data being taken.

What's worth more - the loss of ad revenue from walled login, or the loss of potential revenue selling the data

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RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims that he didn’t want to work with Reddit

Wow, I never knew that Rif had a profit sharing agreement that spez cancelled. And to then attack the devs, this is insane.

Also the way this was worded really made me think of Trump

We have had many conversations — well, not with RIF, he never wanted to talk to us — but with the others, we were having such conversations, and we’ll work with the others. A deadline is important, otherwise these things just linger and linger and linger

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Trudeau denounces Meta's news block as fires force evacuations

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This is pretty much what went wrong. It's a legit problem when google presents a search result by parsing through an article, providing their own summary, and prevents a click. You can even see this on non news searches. You might search for something like what's the largest river in eastern Europe, and it'll return a result from a webpage half way down the webpage and show it as an excerpt (totally made up example). Now I don't need to visit the website, preventing ad revenue.

When you simply post a link on something like Meta, the news organizations themselves are providing the summary you see when you post it. If they're so damned worried about people not clicking links because their provided summary prevents you from reading the article, that isn't Google or Meta's fault. Change the snippet, or don't provide one.

It's insane that the media groups are now trying to say it's anti competitive for meta to not allow people to post news articles now and are trying to force them to allow it. You must allow people to post links, and you must pay us if they do. It's crazy talk.

I'm big on the hate Meta bandwagon and I despise using their service and rarely touch it, but this is all our governments fault. This didn't have to turn out like this.