• 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

  • 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.

  • 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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          1 year ago

          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

  • Mayonnaise@beehaw.org
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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.

  • 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.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    The funny thing is I’m pretty sure replies, tweets, and retweets all count toward that (if they’re using the same rules as the API), so basically that just kills the majority of your user base.

  • chickenwing@lemmy.film
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    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.

  • aja@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Wow that’s my Twitter and Reddit account deleted within 24 hours

  • Kaldo@beehaw.org
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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

    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.