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[-] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.

https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057

[-] bear@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day

[-] Casmael@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago

Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

[-] Cavemanfreak@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!

[-] LittleKerr@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

The day is not over yet

[-] ablackcatstail@goblackcat.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I for one am cheering its demise.

[-] lunarshot@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

wow, this is actually amazing.

You’d think a rapidly developing service like Lemmy might face restrictions like that due to resources but Twitter? Mismanagement beyond belief.

[-] dark_stang@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.

[-] arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 4 points 1 year ago

Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.

[-] gelberhut@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Limit READIND is something new. What a creative move!

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder what's actually going on; I doubt it's about "scraping" and "manipulation"

[-] grinde@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Ha, that's hilarious. Absolutely not a surprise, though

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[-] Mayonnaise@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I don't even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.

[-] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 3 points 1 year ago

Talk about killing the goose that laid golden eggs...

[-] Kaldo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] davewritescode@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

LOL this is ridiculous. Great work Elon!

[-] moonw0man@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

He is so unbelievably dumb?? 😅

[-] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Traditional internet is killing itself

[-] chickenwing@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Datas_Cat_Spot@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] marx2k@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Fucking lol.

Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.

[-] chickenwing@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] seducingcamel@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] seducingcamel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Miss the good ole days of imgur, YouTube, and porn on gfycat

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 (not counting time spent replying). Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.

[-] Thurgo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] aja@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Wow that’s my Twitter and Reddit account deleted within 24 hours

[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.

[-] MikeHfuhruhurr@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Probably an emerald spoon in his case.

[-] African_Grey@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Everyone always saying “rip Twitter” but y’all never leave, so…

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I know, somehow people aren't leaving despite Elon's best efforts.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Great! Come to fediverse, no limits here ✌️

[-] ElmiHalt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Well, Twitter is a mobile game now... Is there something to consider it a gacha?

[-] Spaenny@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

You really can’t make this stuff up, it’s 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.

[-] Sharmat@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] rs5th@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

spez right now:

[-] EliasChao@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Why would you punish your users for using your fucking site? It’s kinda sad how Elon is ruining Twitter.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is utterly insane. Twitter has basically become pay-to-use. I give it less than a day for him to walk this back.

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