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This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
At this point even "Truth Social" is looking less bad
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> Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place? Reach. IDK if anyone is using it as the sole method of communication. But Twitter in practice has a much higher reach than every other method.
Why can't someone build a twitter just for such purposes?
Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience. What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674898695534309378 "1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C. 2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example,…
What does “our” refer to here? Does Twitter (i.e. musk) own the data in any sense? Or does he mean it as “we the people’s data”?
Very off-putting to read that sentence. Obviously he’s trying to monetize the user generated data in this LLM rush as other avenues to monetizations have flopped.
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I tried it but I just can't get into the flow of things, it doesn't feel like a lot happens during the day, but maybe i'm on the wrong server? I just want to expel my bowels and doom scroll bad funny memes
> it doesn't feel like a lot happens during the day, but maybe i'm on the wrong server? We are oriented to think that way after ~15 years of the algorithmic engagement-maxi world of Twitter. It always looks like there's a lot happening all the time but look deeper and it's a bunch of people offering their weak takes on hot topics to build their brand. What was the last thing you remember being must-see sfuff on Twitt…
But I do agree with you, being away from the noise has been really freeing for my mind
Taking into consideration how much Spez thinks of himself as a Musk, we should be expecting Reddit to implement the same feature soon. We are just sitting by the sideline watching as the internet we all loved slowly dies in the hands of greedy corporations. This is truly a sad state of affairs.
For instance if you search "movies like X", on Google by default most results are automated aggregators or one critics perspective. If you search "movies like X reddit" you get more recommendations.
This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
I have a prediction that will make you happier: This is a temporary thing, that will generate a TON of press (outrage ; praise by the fans at the amazing bold strategy move) and will also generate a TON of signups right as there is a wave of people leaving Reddit. And then it will magically open back up. (More press) And that's the story of pretty much every one of the outrageous/bold/brilliant/terrible strategic dec…
My Twitter usage is down a lot since they killed off 3rd party clients.
> Musk — who is no longer CEO of Twitter, but still deeply involved in operations — may also be motivated by a desire to prevent AI tools from searching Twitter. This seems very unlikely. If they really just wanted to stop just AI tools from searching twitter, it would be very easy to prevent them from doing it at scale by imposing basic rate limiting and device intelligence (or even something like the puzzle LinkedI…
Same issue with Reddit, it's a false excuse for embarking on some other kind of cash-grab policy.
They claimed the almost-no-warning API changes were necessary to stop the "AI", except that all the big (and therefore significant) actors could have been stopped by a change to the terms of service or some modest rate-limits.