• dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

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

  • Kaldo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    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

  • Mayonnaise@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • jay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    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.

    • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
      3·
      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.eeEnglish
      2·
      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.

    • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      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.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

  • interolivary@beehaw.orgEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I wonder what’s actually going on; I doubt it’s about “scraping” and “manipulation”

    • grinde@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      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

  • arctic pie (he/him)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    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.

  • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
    1·
    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.

  • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    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.