Peter RojasPlease tell me again about how Mastodon is harder to use than the site where you have to keep track of how many posts you read each day.
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SheldonThis 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
Rod Hiltonlol you won't even be able to read viral tweet threads or the replies. The people paying to have their replies boosted are going to looooove this.
The best part is that all those "the site functions fine after layoffs!" morons won't realize that it's precisely because of those cuts that the service can no longer handle read traffic and they have to do this.
And the best part is that tracking this still requires write traffic for read status, so he's traded cheap reads for expensive writes.
David GerardThis. 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
Eric A. MeyerTwitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.
Dare ObasanjoTwitter is the fourth most hated brand in the US after Fox News, FTX and the Trump Organization. A truly impressive degree of brand destruction in less than a year.
Replies on Mastodon seem to come 80% from the kind of folks that panic when a conference call is ending and they realize they haven't spoken, so they just think of anything at all to say in order to participate. Or folks who submit formatting nitpicks to a code review just so everyone can see they didn't rubber-stamp approve.
They aren't offensive trolls like on Twitter, it's more well-intentioned and sincere but also totally irrelevant and annoying.
Is it that he will buy them and then run things so poorly they lose two-thirds of their value in less than a year?
Hearing rumors about Twitter employees getting a base salary cut soon, and apparently the stock grants that were promised weren't delivered in March.