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Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.
How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day
The day is not over yet
Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!
I for one am cheering its demise.
I don’t even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.
Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.
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.
You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.
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.
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).
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 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.
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 porn on gfycat
Miss the good ole days of imgur, YouTube, and porn on gfycat
Everyone always saying “rip Twitter” but y’all never leave, so…
I know, somehow people aren’t leaving despite Elon’s best efforts.
Fucking lol.
Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.
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
spez right now:
Elon will be happy to know that my Twitter consumption has fallen to zero a day.
