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@nelson@tech.lgbt, @nelson
Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter’s JavaScript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second.
Twitter is DDOSing itself.
[An image taken from the sci-fi television series “The Mandalorian” that shows the protagonist “The Mandalorian” in their characteristic metal suit. Their face is obscured by their helmet. The subtitles underneath the image read the text “[sighs]”]
^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
I’m glad this volunteer community is back. How do I volunteer as well?
Right now, I’m just operating freelance. But I’d recommend checking out the ToR subreddit and accessing the docs and discord from there.
(We don’t have a central document put together yet that isn’t reddit based, but if you go from reddit to discord it should be okay)
Hey, I’m not much of a transcriber, but if you guys need any kind of infrastructure or tool hosting, I’d gladly donate my resources.
I’ll ask the (unofficial) Lemmy branch of the ToR group on discord. Personally, I have no idea how to do anything aside from the transcribing part, but that also means I don’t know what kind of infrastructure we’d need to get this off the ground haha.
I’ll reach out to them and get back to you with results!
What does ToR stand for? Might be easier to find the subreddit that way.
I believe it’s TranscribersOfReddit. The stickied thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/comments/offnxp/new_here_for_info_on_what_we_do_and_on_how_to_get
I like that the volunteer transcribers are already making the switch. Keep up the good work 👍
Nice work! Thanks for helping visually impaired users :)
Do you all have a home community? This was something I always wanted to look into doing on Reddit but never made the time.
Yep, r/TranscribersOfReddit, and then there’s a discord where we all actually talk
This is why we can’t have nice things! Something something more money, right?
This isn’t even greed or anything, it’s just sloppy incompetence and/or obscenely rushed development.
Intelligent retries and exponential backoffs are really common things taught to programmers, whoever didn’t add this needs to have a really good reason or a really good resume…
Lol I just remembered Elon’s tweet that led to him firing an Android dev. Who’s doing poorly batched remote procedure calls again? 😂
I wouldn’t complain if this kills corporate social media and we’re left with the user-run fediverse.
but then we’d have less to complain about
But complaining is half my personality
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Probably some code Elon’s dumbass wrote also.
Can’t believe Reddit was doubling down on a full moderator strike and Twitter said “Hold my beer”
Fuck twatter even more than fuck spez.
Get the popcorn out. 🍿
