• Solar Bear@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day

  • dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.

  • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.

        • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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. Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.

    • Thurgo@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • grinde@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It’s basically everything. Tweets, quoted tweets, replies, and even ads all count against the limit. I’ve seen people saying they hit the limit in under 10 minutes of scrolling. One person said they only managed to post two tweets before being limited.

      And from what I understand spam bots are mostly unaffected since they’re already rate limited for reads (but not posts).

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.

  • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • cmdrfire@lemmy.villa-straylight.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

      The idea is to keep the users on Reddit instead of directing them to third-party sites, so they can show them ads instead of the third-party sites getting all the ad revenue. They just haven’t figured out how to monetize it.

  • jay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • arctic pie (he/him)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Mayonnaise@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I don’t even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.

  • Kaldo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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