Mastodawn

ash Jul 2, 2023

Sheldon Jul 1, 2023

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

ash Jun 30, 2023

@christianselig can you push an update to fix crashing since they disabled the API early, so people can still get their wallpapers

ash Jun 20, 2023

Christian Selig Jun 19, 2023

I wanted to take a minute to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support 💙 https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_to_debunk_reddits_claims_and_talk_about/

📣 I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support

I wanted to address Reddit's continued, provably false statements, as well as answer some questions from the community, and also just say...

ash Jun 16, 2023

This interview just further proves that Spez has no idea what he is talking about. How a company so loved, to having worse and worse PR every day is insane to me. How did anyone ever think this guy deserved or was even smart enough to be CEO?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview

We interviewed Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about the widespread unrest on the platform in response to its forthcoming API changes.

The Verge

ash Jun 15, 2023

Paul Haddad

Jun 15, 2023

Now saying all the quiet parts out loud.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tells The Verge that he’s fine that some of Reddit’s most-beloved third-party apps are shutting down, claiming they didn’t add value to the platform and were “subsidized” by other users.

The Verge

ash Jun 12, 2023

@pixelfed is there an issue signing in currently? I can’t sign in on the official app or Vernissage

ash Jun 12, 2023

Christian Selig Jun 12, 2023

As the subreddit blackout begins, I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the Reddit community and everyone standing up ❤️ Let's hope Reddit listens. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/147a8xb/as_the_subreddit_blackout_begins_i_wanted_to_say/

As the subreddit blackout begins, I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the Reddit community and everyone standing up

Hey all, Watching many subreddits go dark for tomorrow's blackout and before I log out, I just wanted to say it's been so incredibly amazing...

ash Aug 16, 2018

What’s up everyone :)