🆕 A new #Telegram bot is available: the Tomodachi Bot ➡️ https://t.me/TheTomodachiBot
("tomodachi" = "friend" in Japanese)

He's your new friend!😉Feed him, play and talk with him!
(uses #ChatGPT and #DALLE3)

So now the deadbird site, formerly known as Twitter, is inviting developers to come back and "build what's next" with the much abused API.

Twitter (and Reddit)'s greed-infused API restrictions wrecked a project we (ASU News Co/Lab) were doing to help journalists send corrections down the same social media pathways as the original journalism.

The idea that we'd ever work with them again is a sick joke.

Why your blog still needs RSS

Link: https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-your-blog-still-needs-rss
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37175192

#rss

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

#Reddit
#Twitter
...and so on.

Again, own your own content. #Mastodon and #ActivityPub are nowhere near perfect but those plus #RSS are net gains for an open web.