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Imagine making it harder to engage with your platform that depends on engagement to exist.
Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…
This federated thing is pretty dang cool.
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Elon Musk, @elonmusk
To address extreme levels of data scrapting & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
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Good human
This website sure looks like it’s fit to become the X everything app…
The comedy writes itself
Holy crap that’s funny as hell
I’m not tech expert in fact I’m quite dumb when it comes to tech.
BUT HOW DOES ONE MANAGE TO DDOS YOURSELF HOW CAN… I… WHAT
When the cringy rich dingus tells you to code something that is impossible to do with the current infrastructure and the timeframe but instead of explaining because you know he’ll have a temper tantrum, you just do the best you can knowing it won’t work but are already looking for other jobs so you don’t actually care that much.
as someone pointed out on the Mastodon thread, a large chunk of the employees still left are on visas and they can’t just quit …
its rather impressive and takes some serious lack of thinking
this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves
God the man’s so fucking STUPID
This is comedy gold
Lol there’s probably so many scrapers because he made the API so expensive
Is this real??
I can’t imagine it’s hard to scroll past 600 posts in a day if you use twitter a lot.
So, once you’re done your 600 posts, you’ll go somewhere else where you can scroll endlessly, then slowly find yourself more and more going to that somewhere else instead of twitter. Elon twitler Musk is an idiot.
I never really used twitter, but if I used it like i use ANY other social media site, yeah. I would fill that up in like an hour… and I use these sites all day long…
I still have my Twitter, I’ll go check.
23 min
This is some top notch investigative journalism right here.
LOLOLOL i appreciate you so much
Oh, absolutely. It seriously discourages any kind of conversation, because no one will want to read through the replies and waste their content limit.
All attention will be skewed from heavily favoring big accounts to catering ONLY to big accounts, who may see a drop off in fan interaction for the same reason. People respond to celebrity accounts to gush and ask venue/content questions and such. This is the death knell to any of those questions ever being seen.
For myself, I used to follow a TON of microflashfic accounts, which by self-imposed rules are short, concise stories told in 140 characters or less. A bit like r/twosentencehorror but they tended to feel a lot more impactful.
I loved and miss them, and I consider it a lost art that I wish I could bring at least to mastodon. But because they fit in less than a single tweet by necessity, I could easily read through a hundred in 20 minutes if I just went through the tag.
I wonder if Reddit is going to do this next…
I can see them making people log in to see the posts.
I can see Reddit limiting upvotes per day. Only 300 but “unlimited” with Reddit premium, etc
Reddit just loves going full Twitter
Premium gets you a super upvote worth 10 regular votes
Please God don’t give them ideas
He’s trying to squeeze Twitter addicts
Okay, I might not have gotten the lingo yet: I see so many posts about “Rule” and I don’t get it. Can someone ELI5?
The old subreddit had one rule: you had to make a post before leaving. People started just saying “rule” in the title as a joke about begrudgingly complying with the rule.
Duuuuuude thank you. I was kinda close going on context but it makes sense now!
Trust me, it took weeks/months of trying to get the context then as well lmao.
And why the hell would you subscribe to a stupid billionaires Twitter and pay him even More money?
does this guy even use his own apps
He doesn’t even use his own brain.
the rules don’t apply to him
He likes to watch the numbers go up but beyond that, I suppose less than we might think.
Also could be that they are scaling down systems
Im just saying, he hasn’t been paying bills and it’s the first of the month.
It’s almost as though the mass exodus he bragged about causing has consequences
Yeah something I thought since he was “forced” to buy twitter, was he would just burn it to the ground. What does he care?
Why would that affect these metrics?
Less servers able to serve requests means either get overloaded and have downtime, or rate limit and stay up.
Both are bad, but rate limiting is less bad.
Twitter is no longer free. Lol seems like a bad idea.
He didn’t actually say that, did he? That would be really stupid, even for him.
You are really underestimating his stupidity.
he did
He’s crazy
To Elon’s credit (🤮) he did say temporary limits. Of course he lies constantly so who knows.
Can someone explain what is up with the constant “rule” thing in titles with people on this instance?
It’s because it’s an r/196 reboot.
r/196 used to be a subreddit with only one rule: that if you visited the subreddit, you had to post something before you left. Didn’t matter what it was, but it’s why their reiterations in the fediverse seem to much more active than anywhere else.
Whether adding “rule” to the title was a part of it, idk, but I think that part’s just a meme habit
