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[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Cavemanfreak@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

Haha jesus christ, the incompetence is unreal!

[–] bear@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

[–] Cavemanfreak@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!

[–] LittleKerr@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

The day is not over yet

[–] lunarshot@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Thurgo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

I got rate limited in 25 minutes by refreshing my Following feed and reading about people getting rate limited.

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[–] chickenwing@lemmy.film 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] MikeHfuhruhurr@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably an emerald spoon in his case.

[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] randombit 5 points 2 years ago

I’m shocked, SHOCKED that killing the API would lead to web scraping! That was a completely unpredictable outcome.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years 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

[–] rs5th@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

spez right now:

[–] moonw0man@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

He is so unbelievably dumb?? πŸ˜…

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago
[–] tristanphips@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Traditional internet is killing itself

[–] chickenwing@lemmy.film 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

And it was dope for little Kalothar

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.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, Web 2.0 is killing itself. Turns out dipshit greedy pig boys aren't great at running social platforms

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[–] marx2k@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Fucking lol.

Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.

[–] Ignacio@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, let's see. My 1920x1080 monitor and my full window browser can render 3 or 4 posts without scrolling, just logging in on Twitter. Because it's a new account, that means I have 296 posts left to read.

I click on one of those 4 initial posts, and without scrolling, I read 3 or 4 replies. I have 292 posts left to read. And even those replies don't bring me anything meaningful, they're just trolls doing troll things. 4 posts wasted.

And so on and so on. Wonderful, Mr. Free Speech Absolutist.

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[–] Lazycog@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

Let's hope for another twitter migration wave to mastodon / other fediverse platforms!

[–] dark_stang@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

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

I for one am cheering its demise.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

[–] AChiTenshi@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm suspect some of the backend is starting to fail. So the servers can't keep up with the demand.

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[–] ram@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] aja@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Spaenny@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years 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 2 points 2 years ago
[–] atheos@lemmy.atheos.org 2 points 2 years ago

Elon will be happy to know that my Twitter consumption has fallen to zero a day.

[–] African_Grey@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone always saying β€œrip Twitter” but y’all never leave, so…

[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] relevants@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

300 posts is what, maybe 10 minutes of scrolling if you don't actually engage with much of the content..? Brilliant idea.

[–] Mayonnaise@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] EliasChao@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Great! Come to fediverse, no limits here ✌️

[–] srxavi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The good thing is that it will reduce my twitter time to less than 30 minutes.

[–] ElmiHalt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

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

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