Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN

Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by lordnacho on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:26AM (#36723679)

Wouldn't the other big tech firms be able to build a Twitter clone? Why am I not hearing about a Google version, or a Microsoft version? You'd think someone inside one of the Trillion dollar firms would have had the idea.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by rsynnott on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:31AM (#36723764)

Google bringing back Buzz (the Twitter-alike that was briefly in gmail) would perhaps be the funniest possible outcome of all of this.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by marcinzm on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:27AM (#36723697)

Google building a social media product. That will definitely go well this time around.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by Pxtl on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:17PM (#36728635)

5th time's a charm.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by stronglikedan on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:28AM (#36723714)

At least Twitter fixed the election tampering problem, and now allows the free flow of information, even if TPBT object to it. Threads will still be as bad as FB in those regards.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by jdiff on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:40AM (#36723877)

Twitter did no such thing, Twitter now personally silences loud dissenters and engages openly in anticompetitive behavior meanwhile doing less moderation than they ever have. Plugging your ears and ignoring it is not "fixing" the election tampering problem.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by phyrex on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:32AM (#36723773)

What do you think Twitter did that Facebook didn’t do?

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by malermeister on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:06PM (#36725922)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Free flow of information, huh?

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by aloisdg on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:26AM (#36723680)

The alternative is mastodon/pleroma/misskey/calkey, etc.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by ahahahahah on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:34PM (#36726312)

Sure, and the alternative to mac/windows is linux. Which I guess is actually unfair to linux. mastodon/etc are terrible, they will never be used by more than an unimportant minority of people.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by Pxtl on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:14PM (#36728593)

I've tried making do on Mastodon. It's just not as well-made. The federation thing gets in the way, the discoverability of content is hard, one prolific tooter can too easily flood your feed - it's a decade behind Twitter and Threads in terms of usability. Even the basic information density of the web layout is poor.

I'm willing to look past these flaws and stick with the fediverse, but if nobody I want to follow is doing that, there's no point.

I hope Gargron et al can make it happen and beat both Threads and Twitter, but so far they've just been too stubborn (like the search and quote-tweet things) and haven't iterated fast-enough to really compete.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by vitorgrs on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:41PM (#36729633)

Mastodon don't even have a proper search.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by tazjin on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:25AM (#36723669)

You can also just not use either.

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by intrasight on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:26AM (#36723687)

Hacker News is a fine alternative

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Re:Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads vi... by jdiff on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:42AM (#36723912)

HN is in no way an alternative, and that's okay. For the masses that use Twitter, HN is completely uninteresting and completely fails to replace Twitter. HN is too niche, too obscure, too old, and too strict to be a Twitter, and that's what makes it great.

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