LinuxduckRule, nail in coffin
Ken27238Soon you will only have access to the post button 24 times a day. Elon gotta watch his limit.
auhuIf this man had any kind of limit placed on his twitter account he would get so physically ill that heroin withdrawal will look pleasant
Oh boy, here come [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and my favorite: [email protected].
“see? Despite limiting access we actually gained users”
Actually seems about right? Humans won’t be doing more than that.
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.
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Sheldon (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS. Unbelievable. It's amateur hour. #TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
GormadtThe comedy writes itself
Holy crap that’s funny as hell
This website sure looks like it's fit to become the X everything app...
this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves
Data's Cat SpotIs this real??
I can't imagine it's hard to scroll past 600 posts in a day if you use twitter a lot.
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…
NepentheOh, 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.
NeroreroThis will just kill the big accounts that generate a majority of the engagement
zavManaged to use up my limit in about 1 hour
smashesitTwitter is no longer free. Lol seems like a bad idea.
davI reckon this is because of AI datasets, same with reddit. Suddenly having millions of authentic conversations logged is very valuble to companies training Large Laungage Models and the last thing these people want is that value being taken from them.
NorgurOkay, 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.
bxyrkDuuuuuude 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.
TetraReal talk, at this point it really just seems like a conscious effort at destroying the platform. Musk is definitely a fucking idiot, but there's no way even someone as unintelligent as he is would think this is a remotely "good" way to run a social media website.
I'm convinced now his goal was always to just destroy Twitter.
Honestly, I'm not convinced. I think he's just really that dumb. I showed it to someone else who works in IT and their reaction was that it sounded like a lot of management they've worked with: people who have no idea under god how anything works and refuse to listen to why their idea is functionally terrible. Even if you swear up and down it will ruin the entire product, they want it done now, because they want it.
That seems perfectly in line with the kind of moron I've heard he is.
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
This is off topic for this post but the community 196 has a rule that if you visit it you must post. Thus the posts with the title "rule".
This is going to achieve Elon's goal but not for the reasons he thinks. It's going to continue making the site not worth scraping, no matter what the limits are. Rofl.
AlwaysNowNeverNotMeOops I destroyed one of the most media integrated forms of free speech. Dang what a mistake on my part.
He didn’t actually say that, did he? That would be really stupid, even for him.
halvahe did
hungryphrogYou are really underestimating his stupidity.
popemichaelI 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
ayyndrewPremium gets you a super upvote worth 10 regular votes
datenyanPlease God don’t give them ideas
ElectroLisaThey 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
And why the hell would you subscribe to a stupid billionaires Twitter and pay him even More money?
Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…
This federated thing is pretty dang cool.
He’s trying to squeeze Twitter addicts
Bagel (he/him)Image Transcription: Twitter Post
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
This is a transcription template from r/TranscribersOfReddit, which is currently making their templates accessible outside of Reddit. I will update this post with a link to our templates once we have it all sorted. For now, you can access them through Reddit here! www.reddit.com/r/…/guidelines/
Cevilia (they/she/…)Good human