Talk About Tennis 2.0

ZeroDrek
@ZeroDrek
Reddit plans to charge $12,000 per 50 million API requests. This is a death knell for 3rd party Reddit apps. Corporate greed at its finest. I plan on leaving Reddit and spending that time here instead. #reddit

https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comment

Very easy to spot?
Wow, so, now it will be a competition to see who adds kinks and "imperfections" to make it even more real.
I guess it will be a one afternoon job, for the programmer.

This is fascinating.

Interesting indeed.
One caveat (remember, IATA). Why is the ECUADOR coast called the SOUTH PACIFIC. It is at the equator.
(Again, IATA, does not take away one bit from the article. Just found it weird).

Today in Elmo-land

So the tl;dr is this is a money grab.

I think this party is now close to over. I doubt there will be many paying customers for a site which is just entertainment for 80%+ of users.

This is insanity. What's been happening is that normal people have been merrily blocking the infomercial ads and blue check loonies. High volume non verified accounts so he's trying to force you to get verified. If you're limited to 600 total tweets per day including ads why bother?

Sheldon Chang
@sysop408@sfba.social
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


https://files.sfba.social/media_attachm ... 406b59.mp4

Suliso wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:12 pm I think this party is now close to over. I doubt there will be many paying customers for a site which is just entertainment for 80%+ of users.

My daughter, who just yesterday was saying she had no plans to leave Twitter just said the same thing you did.

Rod Hilton
@rodhilton@mastodon.social
Imagine how stupid you have to be to take your web site which traffics in popular posts driving engagement, and disincentivize 99% of your users from loading the most popular posts with the most interest around them because it will eat their daily allotment of reads if they do.


Alex
@mentallyalex@beige.party
@rodhilton I didn't see the original toot, just this one and honestly thought to myself, "Wait he did what? No way..." *click* and then read the above.

That...they *can't* have a board anymore, right? Prior to this level of dumb he got rid of the board?

I don't mean to besmirch them, but I honestly question why anyone would willingly use that tool if they weren't being paid to do so. It's seems like he has a train set and has no interest in trains so he's just pulling levers and watching what happens.

There's also this

Pwnallthethings
@Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social
hmm