• Solar Bear@slrpnk.net
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    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.tf
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    1 year ago

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

  • dark_stang@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

    Please please please let this be the breaking point at which big online personalities switch to mastodon, or at least start using those crossposting tools. That’s the only thing I miss from twitter and something RSS cant replace

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    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.

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    1 year ago

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

  • key@lemmy.keychat.org
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    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.

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      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.

    • myxi@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Dude is using 100% of his brain to find the best way to cut ad revenue.

  • Grant_M@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.

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          But there’s no proof his father even owned emerald mines!! I mean outside public records and his father’s admission and assertion that it’s true!!

          Name me one piece of evidence outside that!! You can’t

  • arctic pie (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    So unless you pay Elon Musk $8/month, you can only load 600 tweets per day. That’s some fucked up shit right there man.