Sometimes the real DDOS are the companies we buy along the way
I mean I see why Reddit and Twitter are doing it. We're in a really weird transitional period of the internet right now, for better or for worse. They're doing it to prevent scraping, because why would you read all these garbage tweets to get to the information you need when an ChatGPT can spit out the exact information without fluff? It's taking their content without any funding back to them, effectively stealing their revenue.
So what are these companies to do? Honestly I hope this is birth to a new form of social media, and this benefits the fedi greatly. It will be unsustainable to run large social media companies like theirs who profit off of user data and content. Whereas tons of fedi servers ran by hobbiest, effectively ran out of pocket or by donations, is much more sustainable. They're doing it for community and more pure content that everyone wants without corporate fluff. If ChatGPT scrapes the fedi community, that's okay because the fedi isn't designed to make money so nothing is lost.
So with Spez having a hard on for Elon and how he runs Twitter, how long until we see this on Reddit? Premium members can view 1000 posts/day and regular members can only view 100 posts/day. Similar rule will apply to comments too.
"Extreme levels of data scraping" my ass. This is probably meant to reduce server costs because Elon put a huge hole in this boat and now he does a very loud "look-what-you-made-me-do" scream. And what on earth would "system manipulation" exactly mean? Sounds like some pseudo-profound bullshit.
Things like Reddit and Twitter are bad for billionaires. It makes it harder for them to exploit you when there is a public place to talk about their bullshit.
That was my reaction when Elon first bought twitter. It's like he's so stupid he thinks Twitter is the only possible platform that could ever be a twitter.
It turns out, we're all pretty clever at figuring out places to talk. The talking is going to happen. Where we do the talking keeps changing.
Elon is so damn transparent. I NEVER remembering anything like this happening before Elon. Dude is running this like a moronic mob boss.
"Hey..it'd be a shame if you could only view 600 tweets. I have this Twitter Blue that might be able to help...."
This truly is a genius level move. If users are using your site, they are contributing to your hosting costs. You don’t want that.
"To address extreme levels of failing to pay our bills & firing every competent person at Twitter, we've applied the following temporary limits:"
It must have taken all of Elon's willpower to not make the limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6969 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 420 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 69/day
I gave up on Twitter when this turd took over but holy shit...
Between this and reddit going "down" yesterday, the internet just sucks right now.
Internet is what you make of it. Plenty of good stuff to find out here. Just leave when you encounter greed.
I think it's important to remember that these companies DID NOT CREATE THIS DATA! They are protecting things that are not theirs.
That has been his goal since he got forced to actually buy it rather than just boosting the stock so he could make a profit, which like most of his antics was really the only goal (publicity and money)
There’s a golden rule: don’t make big changes on an app on Friday because if it fails people are going to have to work during the weekend.
This asshole made the changes on a Saturday
This seems extremely low for all categories. Good for getting people unaddicted though
Twitter was great during the big earthquake we had in Japan, because phones weren't working. People sent out tweets for help and got help thanks to twitter.
After this, a lot of municipalites made accounts and now they post emergency info on twitter, but this just fucks everything up.
Governments should build their own emergency communication channels instead of relying on platforms that are entirely out of their control.
If anything, it's a good early wake up call.
There are rumors that Twitter is having a dispute with its cloud providers, that is why they need to limit bandwidth.
No rumor, they outright refuse to pay bills
So much for capitalism
Refuse to pay bills for your clouds infrastructure.
Refuse to pay rent for your offices.
Big brain time.
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