Based on how much Mastodon is struggling right now, I'm guessing they're getting another boost today, too..

I wonder if reddit, twitter and youtube all got around a table one day and decided that no, actually, screw the users entirely.

Because they are all doing really bizzare things.

I can't think of any reason one would want to stay on the birdsite any longer. What's the use if you can't have full access to people's posts?

Terrible decision from Elon.

LOL I do not miss Twitter a bit.

Guess Mastodon is gonna get hit by a wave of newcomers...

Crawlers and scrapper bots consume a fuckload of traffic, that much is true. But I think it's a bit too late, there's already enough "twitter warehouse of posts in X language" to feed most AI needs, at least for coming up with short answers.

Also, I can't believe Elon did something that could be generally seen as a good thing overall (forcing people to spend less time on twitter)

Putting that 44 billion to work

Phrased like Trump would say