Emergent Noise

@emergentnoise
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Imaging Scientist and Biologist. Currently working on liver physiology and disease.

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

Is mastodon.social having problems? Federated Toots are very slow to load, and I have to refresh the page.
I am not sure how Mastodon will be able to scale to the same level as Twitter. It depends on generous benefactors running their own server and letting others register. This will inevitably lead to fragmentation.
Drama ensues.
Is this the first real alternative to Twitter?