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 …
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...
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.
Soon you will only have access to the post button 24 times a day. Elon gotta watch his limit.
Imagine making it harder to engage with your platform that depends on engagement to exist.
Yeah. That feels more likely. Twitter has been running for years and likely isn’t a stranger to something like this.
Yeah something I thought since he was "forced" to buy twitter, was he would just burn it to the ground. What does he care?
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.
I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.
Yeah, exactly.
Also worth mentioning, the scale of Twitter also means that they have contractual obligations when it comes to uptime (for advertisers etc), so downtime could be very costly indeed.
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
They already do that for NSFW posts, and they're inconsistent about it. Sometimes you just have to click "I'm over 18”, but mostly it asks you to log in
I think it's an old reddit vs new reddit thing, since I've always been able to skip past login on old reddit but never on new reddit
Stay tuned for when spez decides to delete that too
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.
Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long...
This federated thing is pretty dang cool.
Oh boy, here come twit1@funnydomainname.tk, twit2@funnydomainname.tk, twit3@funnydomainname.tk, and my favorite: twit753@funnydomainname.tk.
Then they’ll just do this sort of thing based on IP address and I’ll have to start yelling at my dad for looking at too many tweets
And why the hell would you subscribe to a stupid billionaires Twitter and pay him even More money?
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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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Aren't replies also considered tweets? Click on 1 popular tweet and it counts as 10+ tweets due to the replies automatically loading.
Reading posts? 600 would go by very quickly and 6000 could be scrolled through by a power user pretty easily which sucks for a paid account.
Each time a tweet enters your viewport, it's considered a view. If you have 10 tweets visible on your screen, that's 10 from your quota already.
