Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by root_axis on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:31PM
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It's not apples to oranges, it's directly analogous: both represent federated networks on the internet where users have the freedom to decide which client they want to use and which servers they want to connect to.
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Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by turminal on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:27PM
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They are not analogous. IRC is a chat protocol with semantics suitable for a chat protocol. HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send. It doesn't have any significant semantic implications for sites like Twitter.
Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by root_axis on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:59PM
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> HTTP is at this point just a transport level thing for whatever you want to send.
So what? They're analogous not identical. The distinction you point out isn't relevant to the point of the analogy.
You wrote:
> switching to another network is literally as simple as pointing the client to a different domain name.
irc and http are the same in this respect, thus they are analogous.