• eek2121@lemmy.world
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    They actually likely did this due to SEO. Google was allegedly in the process of removing tweets from the search index because they weren’t accessible. This happens automatically for most sites.

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      This feels like an extremely basic thing to miss. Something 10 seconds of thought would have fixed.

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        I guarantee you whoever pushed this to prod knew exactly what was going to happen, but the super genius(🤮) in charge is always right and must never be questioned.

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          Does anyone else think a lot about the incredible irony of western freedom-loving democracies being fine and dandy with the fact that nearly 100% of workplaces are top-down dictatorships? Even when you’re “given” freedom to act independently, it’s always predicated upon your decisions and actions aligning with the wishes of your superiors. The second that isn’t the case, you get your marching orders, and you can either comply or fuck off.

          It would be one thing if employment were “optional” to some degree, or there were always more jobs than people to do them, but so many people are one missed paycheck or medical emergency away from homelessness, you basically have no choice but to grin and bear it.

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            My upper manager always goes on about “empowerment” being part of the new direction for the business, but wouldn’t you know, we still get drawn and quartered for the smallest errors.

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              The real solution isn’t those things; it’s structuring the businesseses as employee-owned co-ops.

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            It would be one thing if employment were “optional” to some degree, or there were always more jobs than people to do them, but so many people are one missed paycheck or medical emergency away from homelessness, you basically have no choice but to grin and bear it.

            Well, it is “optional” to some degree. I know plenty of people across Europe who are doing oke enough on basic support. It’s not an amazing living but it’s not like you are out on the streets. And a medical emergency will not cripple you with debt.
            At least far as actually freedom-loving democracies go (as in, free to abort, free to express your identity, free to protest, …).

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          So much this. The leader on top is the one who instills the corporate culture. In this case, the engineers have no say in the matter. They need to do what they’re told.

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        Okay but that would involve whoever is in charge there to think longer than 10 seconds.

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      How does Pinterest get around this then? They pollute image searches like crazy, and require you to login to see anything. At least they did, I blocked them from searches so maybe it’s different now.

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        They must have changed their paywall behavior, I just went and was able to see every image I clicked on.

        The login popup appears after a few pages but you can just exit out and keep viewing. Google should be able to index the pages without access issues

        Maybe that previous aggressive login screen killed their SEO before, I see much less pinterest images than I used to years ago

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          it 100% did, google removed over half the twitter links on its index due to dead links/login requirements, which if kept like that would basically kill all Twitter traffic since most traffic comes from search engines

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        Easy - detect if you’re getting accessed by a search crawler or a human. Serve a full page or just a login request.

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      And if they didn’t fire everyone, someone with a spec of sense would have told them this

      Same with popups that try to throw you to only a mobile app

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        What makes you think that even if someone told Musk that, he would have listened to them?

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          He was firing people before who told him something wasn’t going to work, so it wouldn’t surprise me if everyone who knew this would fail stayed silent in fear for their jobs.

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            Every single one of these “iNDePENdeNT/liBerTaRian” tech bros think they’re the smartest man in the room. Too high on their own farts.

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      Yes, most likely, within days they lost half of their links in Google.

      How tf they did not see this happening?

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        Since Elon I don’t think Twitter has been thinking about the long term effects of their actions. Everyone predicted the blue checkmark fiasco but they went ahead with it anyway so this doesn’t surprise me.

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      Probably also advertisement revenue. Why would people go on twitter if they can’t see anything? Why would advertisers pay money to show ads to no-one?

      I think Elon got quite a talking to.