• Solar Bear@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

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

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

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

    • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Nah, Web 2.0 is killing itself. Turns out dipshit greedy pig boys aren’t great at running social platforms

    • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Mayonnaise@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • jay@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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
      2·
      1 year 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
      1·
      1 year 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).

  • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.