Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.
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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.
Dude is using 100% of his brain to find the best way to cut ad revenue.
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).
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.
spez right now:
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
The day is not over yet
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Fucking lol.
Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.
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
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For my money I would bet the issue stems from abandoning Google server hosting, either from arrogance or being unable to afford it.
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I'm suspect some of the backend is starting to fail. So the servers can't keep up with the demand.
Or it could be. It's no coincidence that scraping went way up when he started charging for the API.
Everyone with a brain knows that data will be retrieved somehow, it's do you want a lower cost API option or do you want them to scrape the whole webpage?
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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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Iβm shocked, SHOCKED that killing the API would lead to web scraping! That was a completely unpredictable outcome.
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I for one am cheering its demise.
Let's hope for another twitter migration wave to mastodon / other fediverse platforms!
Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.
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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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.
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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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Nah, Web 2.0 is killing itself. Turns out dipshit greedy pig boys aren't great at running social platforms
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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.
This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.
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.
Wow thatβs my Twitter and Reddit account deleted within 24 hours
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
Elon will be happy to know that my Twitter consumption has fallen to zero a day.
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Limit READIND is something new. What a creative move!
"Temporary Limits"
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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300 posts is what, maybe 10 minutes of scrolling if you don't actually engage with much of the content..? Brilliant idea.
He is so unbelievably dumb?? π
Brilliant, make the service literally unusable, lets see how it plays out
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.
Why would you punish your users for using your fucking site? Itβs kinda sad how Elon is ruining Twitter.
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