After dropping third party support I only read more and more questionable decisions by Musk in the news.

Yeah, I first heard about that new policy yesterday. It's dumb

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Is it possible to use our applicable data retrieval tools and host the data separately, so Elon can't hoard it all?

Are paying members gonna get some sort of proration for the bullshit Musk sold them. This whole thing is beyond hilarious.

Speaking as someone who never really plugged into Twitter much in the first place: the notion that tweets have any sort of real value and that putting caps on consuming them is a meaningful control measure is the funniest fucking thing. Like no doubt he I actually trying to ruin it, that's happening. But this is clearly supposed to elicit some kind of reaction, and I just can't imagine feeling like, "oh, no, this only 600?" 600 of what? Brainfarts? Serious ideas that, if they were written by serious people would be in a long form medium? It's like saying "you can go to the grocery store but you can only buy 60 chew toys for your dog per day". Like, okay, I wasn't going to do that anyway and I think it's funny that you thought I was going to, or that I'd care about this new limitation.

Until there is a viable Twitter competitor, this will continue and people will keep using it.

There needs to be one that scales. Mastodon had its chance and it's clear people don't want it. Maybe the answer is Bluesky, but that's not going to happen unless they open up their doors.

I can't believe I'm rooting for Meta, but their Threads app might work out and it will be better once it syncs with ActivityPub.

Wonder what mental gymnastics the fanboys/chuds are doing to spin this into “yes, Mr. Musk you are so smart, please piss on me next”?

I think he got this.