Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.
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How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day
Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!
The day is not over yet
wow, this is actually amazing.
Youβd think a rapidly developing service like Lemmy might face restrictions like that due to resources but Twitter? Mismanagement beyond belief.
Fucking lol.
Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.
Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.
By post he means tweet, right? Google says average tweet length is only around 30 characters and average word length around 5 characters. So let's say it's 8 words with abbreviation which would take 2 seconds to read. If it's 4 seconds per tweet with scrolling then you can now only spend under an hour on Twitter without paying. Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.
I got rate limited in 25 minutes by refreshing my Following feed and reading about people getting rate limited. I don't think it counts 600 unique tweets since I definitely reloaded the same tweets multiple times.
It's basically everything. Tweets, quoted tweets, replies, and even ads all count against the limit. I've seen people saying they hit the limit in under 10 minutes of scrolling. One person said they only managed to post two tweets before being limited.
And from what I understand spam bots are mostly unaffected since they're already rate limited for reads (but not posts).
He is so unbelievably dumb?? π
You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.
This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.
So unless you pay Elon Musk $8/month, you can only load 600 tweets per day. That's some fucked up shit right there man.
You know the fediverse isn't perfect but it seems more sustainable than these big social media companies that are not profitable. Reddit and Twitter make no real money but want to host everything on their website and I'm not entirely sure why. Image boards like 4chan purge all their data and the fediverse is spread out to a bunch of different servers. What's the point of keeping everything forever on one server? Do they really think that all that junk data is valuable?
Also why did reddit go from just hosting text to hosting images and videos? It used to be a link aggregation site now it's a never leave our borders site I don't understand how that's going to be profitable with how much hosting that data is going to cost.
Years ago I used to hit like 15 websites a day just for video game news and discussion then it became all reddit.
Miss the good ole days of porn on gfycat
As Cory Doctorow termed it, it's the enshittification of the Internet - all for the sake of "shareholder value" It's a proper "can't see the wood for the trees" business
Miss the good ole days of imgur, YouTube, and porn on gfycat
Please please please let this be the breaking point at which big online personalities switch to mastodon, or at least start using those crossposting tools. That's the only thing I miss from twitter and something RSS cant replace
I don't even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.
I for one am cheering its demise.
Simply put this is the most amazing thing the twit did to Twitter since forcing himself as King Twit. Even better than when he tried to back out of it but couldn't because he'd already signed for it.
Talk about killing the goose that laid golden eggs...
I wonder what's actually going on; I doubt it's about "scraping" and "manipulation"
This is second-hand, so take it with a grain of salt, but I've seen mention of a bug that sometimes causes the same graphql query to be executed in an infinite loop (presumably they're async requests, so the browser wouldn't lock and the user wouldn't even notice).
So they may essentially be getting DDOS'd by their own users due to a bug on their end.
Edit: better info: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057
Ha, that's hilarious. Absolutely not a surprise, though
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Wow thatβs my Twitter and Reddit account deleted within 24 hours
spez right now:
Everyone always saying βrip Twitterβ but yβall never leave, soβ¦
I know, somehow people aren't leaving despite Elon's best efforts.
Traditional internet is killing itself
Just these monolithic social media companies really. And I don't really consider anything "web 2.0" to be traditional internet. Newgrounds was traditional internet.
The fediverse came just in time. I wouldn't have even heard about lemmy/kbin or mastodon if reddit hadn't shut down 3rd party apps.
They seem like they're trying to bleed a stone.
I would say the traditional internet was before the time of corporate ruled media, so in that case I'd say corporate internet is killing itself and and media is going back to traditional, at least with respect to the Fediverse.
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Well, Twitter is a mobile game now... Is there something to consider it a gacha?
Why would you punish your users for using your fucking site? Itβs kinda sad how Elon is ruining Twitter.
Iβm shocked, SHOCKED that killing the API would lead to web scraping! That was a completely unpredictable outcome.
Great! Come to fediverse, no limits here βοΈ
300 posts is what, maybe 10 minutes of scrolling if you don't actually engage with much of the content..? Brilliant idea.
LOL this is ridiculous. Great work Elon!
This is utterly insane. Twitter has basically become pay-to-use. I give it less than a day for him to walk this back.
The funny thing is I'm pretty sure replies, tweets, and retweets all count toward that (if they're using the same rules as the API), so basically that just kills the majority of your user base.
You really canβt make this stuff up, itβs beyond my head how someone can make those choices. But I mean advertisers already ditched Twitter long ago, so why not squeeze the last money out of it that you can get.
Elon will be happy to know that my Twitter consumption has fallen to zero a day.
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