• Spike@feddit.de
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      What do you mean? Because everybody should be able to read what the chancellor writes.

      • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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        Agreed. If someone sends me a twitter link, even if public, I can’t read it as my privacy settings are such that they can’t get a unique ID on me. It forces a log in. Which I can’t, and won’t do.

        My colleague can view public tweets, even if not logged in, as we assume Twitter can uniquely identify them, even if not logged in.

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          They’ve stopped forcing a log in entirely, usually you can view the post that’s linked just not any subsequent posts (which of course still ruins post threads, where the user spreads a single post over multiple entries).

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        I guess the question if why don’t they directly publish the content on the website without going through Twitter

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        Or just use a different platform? Other large public entities have, like the BBC, CBC etc.

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            My guess would be because of the reach? Like, Twitter has a lot of users and a lot of important figures in politics worldwide use it. Not that many people, both as in political figures, and small users use the Fediverse.

            But then again, you could just do both.

            • UESPA_Sputnik@feddit.de
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              My guess would be because of the reach?

              I use neither Mastodon nor Twitter (I’ve never understood the value of microblogging) but one of them is freely available, the other one is restricted. In my view – as someone who has no account on either platform and only occasionally goes there if it’s linked somewhere – Mastodon has a much wider reach.

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              Hopefully when twitterx goes extinct the German Chancellor will just spin up their own instance and federate their content.