Dave Troy Jul 3, 2023

Elon is such a liar.

1. Rate limits aren’t how you address scraping. Can easily be done with firewalls.

2. He is intentionally breaking the service.

3. No, it’s not because he didn’t pay a bill; but failing to pay bills is also an intentional, strategic choice.

People need to accept the fact that he is conducting a controlled demolition. The appropriate question then is “why?”

The answer is: to warp the information space.

Show threadAlice
@davetroy agreed ! I’ve been trying to tell my birdsite friends it’s intentional destruction since day one. The data and information ecosystem are incredibly valuable esp to bad actors, no matter how much M*sk messes it up. Cutting off API access to everyone except people who can pay a prohibitive amount of money, was a big hint for me as to what he was doing.
Jul 3, 2023 at 1:27pmWeb
Show threadjoostetoJul 3, 2023
@alicet @davetroy
Could be, but the longer the site is alive, the more valuable data the site generates.
So I still don't understand why he would want to destruct it.