July 1, 20231 yr Well, if that stays permanent - that's Twitter over. Good riddance low key, it's been a horrid right wing fest for a while now.
July 1, 20231 yr LOL, great idea to limit networking on a social media website. This'll go down well :kink:Â Oh well, hopefully Twitter (along with Facebook, Instagram and all centralised websites) die and the net goes back to being more dispersed.
July 1, 20231 yr Can you imagine Tesco saying „if you’re a Clubcard holder you can spend 60€ a month, but everyone else can only spend 6€ a month“ Absolutely insane. Twitter’s entire value comes from posting and scrolling.  We already knew this man was not even 1% as smart as he or his fangirls think he is, but this is new levels of dumb       Did no one even tell him about the death of Tumblr?
July 1, 20231 yr Welp that's my Twitter browsing over until tomorrow. "Rate limit exceeded" indeed. :cry:
July 1, 20231 yr This is ridiculous. There's a huge online community of very sick and disabled people (totally bedbound) who rely on the platform to interact with eachother, follow research and share advice and knowing this is going to impact them is just stupidly cruel and unnecessary. Â f*** sake.
July 1, 20231 yr I'm sure Musk will claim that the "technical issues" have nothing to do with the fact that he sacked so many staff.
July 2, 20231 yr Author Well, if that stays permanent - that's Twitter over. Good riddance low key, it's been a horrid right wing fest for a while now. I mean, it's not really though. Certainly before Elon it was one of the most hierarchy-flattening websites in existence (my conspiracy theory is that Elon wanted to destroy a site that allowed people to directly talk to him and other billionaires/celebrities just as easily as any other account) and even now based off of tweets that leave their circles it's still far more friendly to progressive values from casual users - while right-wing accounts tend to have low engagement for their following, indicating bots.  There's been an uptick of right-wing accounts from Elon but I still have to go to some effort to see things I don't want to see. Not that that'll be a problem with the new limit, I'm trying to hit it so I can see what it feels like but when he's charging to view it's over. I do think what he's done to it is a measurably bad loss for the world - if nothing similar takes its place - where else do you get world leaders speaking directly to their people, journalists able to provide instant updates, and somewhere that is great for publicising yourself nearly whatever your job or creative pursuit is?  big websites charging for API use is so so dumb and also what's going to kill the current internet
July 2, 20231 yr trying to scrounge around for a bluesky invite, I have mutuals on there but I think invites are limited. and I don’t have it in me to resurrect my tumblr lol Edited July 2, 20231 yr by dhwe
July 2, 20231 yr also I hate to give him more credit than he deserves and people have always pushed back against this idea saying he’s too stupid to be playing 4D chess but I really do think he was trying to bring down that app on purpose knowing it’s the nexus of much of the online left Edited July 2, 20231 yr by dhwe
July 2, 20231 yr I think people are a bit naive to think that Musk is just randomly implementing these ideas - look at how fast other sites started restricting their APIs once Twitter did and how sites like Instagram started talking about doing pay options like Twitter Blue; the truth is that Musk is probably just picking up on ideas that have been floated for quite a while within the upper echelons of these companies, he's just the first to pull the trigger. I think people need to remember that some of these sites aren't that profitable per user (Reddit being the infamous example of a massive amount of user, but with low profitability on each).
July 2, 20231 yr Author I think people are a bit naive to think that Musk is just randomly implementing these ideas - look at how fast other sites started restricting their APIs once Twitter did and how sites like Instagram started talking about doing pay options like Twitter Blue; the truth is that Musk is probably just picking up on ideas that have been floated for quite a while within the upper echelons of these companies, he's just the first to pull the trigger. I think people need to remember that some of these sites aren't that profitable per user (Reddit being the infamous example of a massive amount of user, but with low profitability on each). A fantastic argument for pulling these utilities away from for-profit companies, really. For better or worse they're now the backbone of the internet and Musk's direct 'you pay for what you use' model just won't be accepted by the large user base that is needed to make the sites work. It's burning everything down for short term gain.
July 2, 20231 yr also I hate to give him more credit than he deserves and people have always pushed back against this idea saying he’s too stupid to be playing 4D chess but I really do think he was trying to bring down that app on purpose knowing it’s the nexus of much of the online left I have that same feeling. He is verrry right wing.Â
July 4, 20231 yr I have that same feeling. He is verrry right wing. Without a doubt. The right wing assholes wake up every day with thr sole goal of destroying the "woke" and the left and they have the money to do it sadly as capitalism rewards the ones free of morals.
July 5, 20231 yr It went dark for me on Friday (I don't have an account and use nitter to view/follow people I rate), can't say I missed it all that much. Hopefully a much better rival arises from the ashes (and not anything that Instagram has to do with because Meta/Facebook can frankly all get in the bin too).
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