• key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
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    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
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      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
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      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).

  • relevants@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    300 posts is what, maybe 10 minutes of scrolling if you don’t actually engage with much of the content…? Brilliant idea.

      • fidodo@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        That’s my bet too. They weren’t hosting the site itself on GCP but they were using them for trust and safety services, and I bet that one of those services was anti scraping prevention with things like ip blocking and captchas, which would explain why scraping suddenly became a problem for them the day their contract ended. It can’t be a coincidence.

      • interolivary@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Oh yeah I completely forgot about that particular idiocy, Elmo gets up to so much stupid shit that it’s hard to keep track.

        But I’d also be willing to bet money on this being somehow at least partially tied to ditching GC, likely due to not being able to pay (at that’s what is implied by them refusing to pay the bill.) I guess Elmo thought “how hard can running some servers be? I’m a rokit skientist” and decided to just skip paying the bill as a power move instead of trying to make a deal with Google, and now the remaining developers, ops people etc. – those poor bastards – are paying the price.

    • grinde@programming.devEnglish
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      2 years ago

      This is second-hand, so take it with a grain of salt, but I’ve seen mention of a bug that sometimes causes the same graphql query to be executed in an infinite loop (presumably they’re async requests, so the browser wouldn’t lock and the user wouldn’t even notice).

      So they may essentially be getting DDOS’d by their own users due to a bug on their end.

      Edit: better info: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
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    2 years ago

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

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Ahahaha in another post (here in Beehaw) I made the joke that Twitter should lock down making Tweets behind a blue checkmark. But they go the extra mile and limit the amount of readable Tweets, just to beat my suggestion. I’m impressed. They even made a bigger joke than I did, but they did not just told the joke, they actually did it.

  • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
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    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.

  • Ignacio [he]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So, let’s see. My 1920x1080 monitor and my full window browser can render 3 or 4 posts without scrolling, just logging in on Twitter. Because it’s a new account, that means I have 296 posts left to read.

    I click on one of those 4 initial posts, and without scrolling, I read 3 or 4 replies. I have 292 posts left to read. And even those replies don’t bring me anything meaningful, they’re just trolls doing troll things. 4 posts wasted.

    And so on and so on. Wonderful, Mr. Free Speech Absolutist.

  • dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

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