Gah, all you people in here are gonna have me jumping into mastodon before long…
This federated thing is pretty dang cool.
Oops I destroyed one of the most media integrated forms of free speech. Dang what a mistake on my part.
Real talk, at this point it really just seems like a conscious effort at destroying the platform. Musk is definitely a fucking idiot, but there’s no way even someone as unintelligent as he is would think this is a remotely “good” way to run a social media website.
I’m convinced now his goal was always to just destroy Twitter.
Honestly, I’m not convinced. I think he’s just really that dumb. I showed it to someone else who works in IT and their reaction was that it sounded like a lot of management they’ve worked with: people who have no idea under god how anything works and refuse to listen to why their idea is functionally terrible. Even if you swear up and down it will ruin the entire product, they want it done now, because they want it.
That seems perfectly in line with the kind of moron I’ve heard he is.
I think you’re dead on. Elon is trying to make Twitter work, but he doesn’t understand it at all. He doesn’t understand what they’re commodifying, who their customers are, or why people use Twitter in the first place.
Soon you will only have access to the post button 24 times a day. Elon gotta watch his limit.
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
Oh, Elon won’t have a limit. Elon Mode is a standard feature in Elon’s products.
Oh boy, here come [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and my favorite: [email protected].
Then they’ll just do this sort of thing based on IP address and I’ll have to start yelling at my dad for looking at too many tweets
Daaaad, get off
the phonetwitter, i want to usethe internettwitter.
“see? Despite limiting access we actually gained users”
I reckon this is because of AI datasets, same with reddit. Suddenly having millions of authentic conversations logged is very valuble to companies training Large Laungage Models and the last thing these people want is that value being taken from them.
God the man’s so fucking STUPID
This website sure looks like it’s fit to become the X everything app…
The comedy writes itself
Holy crap that’s funny as hell
This is comedy gold
this is so fucking funny, let me grab my popcorn as i watch all the corporate social media sites shit themselves
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
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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.
as someone pointed out on the Mastodon thread, a large chunk of the employees still left are on visas and they can’t just quit …
So paywall Twitter? Cool.
Even paying users have a rate limit. It’s a ridiculous idea, especially financially.
Twitter is no longer free. Lol seems like a bad idea.
Actually seems about right? Humans won’t be doing more than that.
Each time a tweet enters your viewport, it’s considered a view. If you have 10 tweets visible on your screen, that’s 10 from your quota already.
Aren’t replies also considered tweets? Click on 1 popular tweet and it counts as 10+ tweets due to the replies automatically loading.
Reading posts? 600 would go by very quickly and 6000 could be scrolled through by a power user pretty easily which sucks for a paid account.
Is this real??
I can’t imagine it’s hard to scroll past 600 posts in a day if you use twitter a lot.
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…
I still have my Twitter, I’ll go check.
23 min
My only significant use for twitter is smut, so… Yeah plenty of time 🤣
LOLOLOL i appreciate you so much
This is some top notch investigative journalism right here.
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.
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.
Yeah it’s real: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
This is going to achieve Elon’s goal but not for the reasons he thinks. It’s going to continue making the site not worth scraping, no matter what the limits are. Rofl.
This will just kill the big accounts that generate a majority of the engagement
And why the hell would you subscribe to a stupid billionaires Twitter and pay him even More money?
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
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
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
Premium gets you a super upvote worth 10 regular votes
Please God don’t give them ideas
