This. You can tell that this is precisely how Elon fucked it. And this limiting code turned out to have the self-DDOS in it.

600 posts/day. That's like, STOP READING TWITTER AT ALL

@davidgerard on the plus side, this is finally the kick I needed to transition over to mastodon (after seeing your post on Twitter you were my first follow)
@ashen @davidgerard I have been on here for a while and deleted the app, but kept on finding myself looking back at the birdsite. I think this is probably going to be the critical point where I abandon it - I have logged out and don't plan to log in again