By post he means tweet, right? Google says average tweet length is only around 30 characters and average word length around 5 characters. So let's say it's 8 words with abbreviation which would take 2 seconds to read. If it's 4 seconds per tweet with scrolling then you can now only spend under an hour on Twitter without paying (not counting time spent replying). Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.
I got rate limited in 25 minutes by refreshing my Following feed and reading about people getting rate limited. I don't think it counts 600 unique tweets since I definitely reloaded the same tweets multiple times.
Dude is using 100% of his brain to find the best way to cut ad revenue.
Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.
Haha jesus christ, the incompetence is unreal!
wow, this is actually amazing.
You’d think a rapidly developing service like Lemmy might face restrictions like that due to resources but Twitter? Mismanagement beyond belief.
Fucking lol.
Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.
How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day
Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!
This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.
Probably an emerald spoon in his case.
Indeed!
But there's no proof his father even owned emerald mines!! I mean outside public records and his father's admission and assertion that it's true!!
Name me one piece of evidence outside that!! You can't
You know the fediverse isn't perfect but it seems more sustainable than these big social media companies that are not profitable. Reddit and Twitter make no real money but want to host everything on their website and I'm not entirely sure why. Image boards like 4chan purge all their data and the fediverse is spread out to a bunch of different servers. What's the point of keeping everything forever on one server? Do they really think that all that junk data is valuable?
Also why did reddit go from just hosting text to hosting images and videos? It used to be a link aggregation site now it's a never leave our borders site I don't understand how that's going to be profitable with how much hosting that data is going to cost.
Years ago I used to hit like 15 websites a day just for video game news and discussion then it became all reddit.
As Cory Doctorow termed it, it's the enshittification of the Internet - all for the sake of "shareholder value" It's a proper "can't see the wood for the trees" business
Traditional internet is killing itself
Just these monolithic social media companies really. And I don't really consider anything "web 2.0" to be traditional internet. Newgrounds was traditional internet.
The fediverse came just in time. I wouldn't have even heard about lemmy/kbin or mastodon if reddit hadn't shut down 3rd party apps.
They seem like they're trying to bleed a stone.
Nah, Web 2.0 is killing itself. Turns out dipshit greedy pig boys aren't great at running social platforms
I would say the traditional internet was before the time of corporate ruled media, so in that case I'd say corporate internet is killing itself and and media is going back to traditional, at least with respect to the Fediverse.
I wonder what's actually going on; I doubt it's about "scraping" and "manipulation"
I'm suspect some of the backend is starting to fail. So the servers can't keep up with the demand.
This is second-hand, so take it with a grain of salt, but I've seen mention of a bug that sometimes causes the same graphql query to be executed in an infinite loop (presumably they're async requests, so the browser wouldn't lock and the user wouldn't even notice).
So they may essentially be getting DDOS'd by their own users due to a bug on their end.
Edit: better info: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057
For my money I would bet the issue stems from abandoning Google server hosting, either from arrogance or being unable to afford it.
That's my bet too. They weren't hosting the site itself on GCP but they were using them for trust and safety services, and I bet that one of those services was anti scraping prevention with things like ip blocking and captchas, which would explain why scraping suddenly became a problem for them the day their contract ended. It can't be a coincidence.
I for one am cheering its demise.
You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.
So unless you pay Elon Musk $8/month, you can only load 600 tweets per day. That's some fucked up shit right there man.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that killing the API would lead to web scraping! That was a completely unpredictable outcome.
spez right now:
He is so unbelievably dumb?? 😅
Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.
Let's hope for another twitter migration wave to mastodon / other fediverse platforms!
Brilliant, make the service literally unusable, lets see how it plays out
Talk about killing the goose that laid golden eggs...
Wow that’s my Twitter and Reddit account deleted within 24 hours
Please please please let this be the breaking point at which big online personalities switch to mastodon, or at least start using those crossposting tools. That's the only thing I miss from twitter and something RSS cant replace
fuck you, Elon. open source devs will bypass this shit in about a week.
300 posts is what, maybe 10 minutes of scrolling if you don't actually engage with much of the content..? Brilliant idea.
I quickly scrolled through my feed to see how fast I'd hit the limit. It took like a minute. Most of the posts hadn't even loaded before I scrolled past them. What a joke.
The funny thing is I'm pretty sure replies, tweets, and retweets all count toward that (if they're using the same rules as the API), so basically that just kills the majority of your user base.
I don't even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.
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