How Platforms Die

Who would have thought six months ago that Twitter would die so quickly and clearly? My choice of words is not exaggerated. We are witnessing the death of a platform. Not that I ever had an account on this so-called social medium. I use its open API with my own Nitter instance1, as introduced here as a blog post two years ago2. Free of advertising, the collection of behavioral data, a user interface full of distractions, dark patterns, and 3rd-party content, I read tweets from interesting people as an RSS feed together with all other news in my personal Nextcloud news reader. Read more