• @FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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      441 year ago

      I’m not tech expert in fact I’m quite dumb when it comes to tech.

      BUT HOW DOES ONE MANAGE TO DDOS YOURSELF HOW CAN… I… WHAT

      • pancakes
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        521 year ago

        When the cringy rich dingus tells you to code something that is impossible to do with the current infrastructure and the timeframe but instead of explaining because you know he’ll have a temper tantrum, you just do the best you can knowing it won’t work but are already looking for other jobs so you don’t actually care that much.

    • Gormadt
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      421 year ago

      The comedy writes itself

      Holy crap that’s funny as hell

    • @Monologue@lemmy.world
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      191 year ago

      this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves

    • Stranded
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      31 year ago

      This website sure looks like it’s fit to become the X everything app…

  • Data's Cat Spot
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    501 year ago

    Is this real??

    I can’t imagine it’s hard to scroll past 600 posts in a day if you use twitter a lot.

    • olbaidiablo
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      391 year ago

      So, once you’re done your 600 posts, you’ll go somewhere else where you can scroll endlessly, then slowly find yourself more and more going to that somewhere else instead of twitter. Elon twitler Musk is an idiot.

    • LinuxduckOP
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      381 year ago

      I never really used twitter, but if I used it like i use ANY other social media site, yeah. I would fill that up in like an hour… and I use these sites all day long…

      • Nepenthe
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        Oh, absolutely. It seriously discourages any kind of conversation, because no one will want to read through the replies and waste their content limit.

        All attention will be skewed from heavily favoring big accounts to catering ONLY to big accounts, who may see a drop off in fan interaction for the same reason. People respond to celebrity accounts to gush and ask venue/content questions and such. This is the death knell to any of those questions ever being seen.

        For myself, I used to follow a TON of microflashfic accounts, which by self-imposed rules are short, concise stories told in 140 characters or less. A bit like r/twosentencehorror but they tended to feel a lot more impactful.

        I loved and miss them, and I consider it a lost art that I wish I could bring at least to mastodon. But because they fit in less than a single tweet by necessity, I could easily read through a hundred in 20 minutes if I just went through the tag.

  • Ken27238
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    441 year ago

    Soon you will only have access to the post button 24 times a day. Elon gotta watch his limit.

    • auhu
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      21 year ago

      If this man had any kind of limit placed on his twitter account he would get so physically ill that heroin withdrawal will look pleasant

  • wander1236
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    381 year ago

    Imagine making it harder to engage with your platform that depends on engagement to exist.

    • @ugh@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      Even paying users have a rate limit. It’s a ridiculous idea, especially financially.

    • @Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      161 year ago

      Yeah. That feels more likely. Twitter has been running for years and likely isn’t a stranger to something like this.

    • LinuxduckOP
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      151 year ago

      Yeah something I thought since he was “forced” to buy twitter, was he would just burn it to the ground. What does he care?

      • Thurstylark
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        61 year ago

        Less servers able to serve requests means either get overloaded and have downtime, or rate limit and stay up.

        Both are bad, but rate limiting is less bad.

        • @catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca
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          11 year ago

          I see, I guess at that scale API requests add up. I suppose it is a solution, and if replies don’t count, the limits are rather reasonable.

          • Thurstylark
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            Yeah, exactly.

            Also worth mentioning, the scale of Twitter also means that they have contractual obligations when it comes to uptime (for advertisers etc), so downtime could be very costly indeed.

  • @popemichael@lemmy.world
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    301 year ago

    I wonder if Reddit is going to do this next…

    I can see them making people log in to see the posts.

    I can see Reddit limiting upvotes per day. Only 300 but “unlimited” with Reddit premium, etc

    Reddit just loves going full Twitter

    • @ElectroLisa
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      51 year ago

      They already do that for NSFW posts, and they’re inconsistent about it. Sometimes you just have to click "I’m over 18”, but mostly it asks you to log in

      • @smooth_jazz_warlady
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        21 year ago

        I think it’s an old reddit vs new reddit thing, since I’ve always been able to skip past login on old reddit but never on new reddit

        Stay tuned for when spez decides to delete that too

  • @Nerorero
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    291 year ago

    This will just kill the big accounts that generate a majority of the engagement

  • Norgur
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    281 year ago

    Okay, I might not have gotten the lingo yet: I see so many posts about “Rule” and I don’t get it. Can someone ELI5?

  • @Cubes@lemm.ee
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    271 year ago

    Lol there’s probably so many scrapers because he made the API so expensive

  • @bxyrk@discuss.tchncs.de
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    231 year ago

    Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…

    This federated thing is pretty dang cool.

      • H3‎
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        Daaaad, get off the phone twitter, i want to use the internet twitter.