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I was just about to open one now. Not anymore. There used to be a lot of good stuff on twitter. Now it doesn’t matter.
I have a quora account, but I don’t use quora because it is difficult to use without account. I have a stack exchange account. But I never login.
I browser anonymously including HN. It’s nice this way.
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It's extremely rough around the edges but getting into fediverse content (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) has been extremely rewarding to me. It's like twitter and reddit but 15 years ago (and by that I mostly mean it's janky and full of bugs. Just like the web was 15 years ago!)
How does fediverse intend to pay for server/developer cost? For new technologies many smart people work for free as long as it excites them and when it just comes to maintenance and fixing bugs it wouldn't be cheap for any technology with so many moving parts. Also, early adopters donate with much higher probability than when the masses arrive.
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In the email, they said “Note that if you attempt to evade a permanent suspension by creating new accounts, we will suspend your new accounts.”
So now I’m 100% banned from twitter if I follow the rules.
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!"
What he means is "we can't deal with a regular amount of traffic because we fired most people, also we don't know the value of SEO"
There’s lots of legitimate reasons to criticize, but making a more efficient company and firing valueless employees is not one of them.
Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at https://twitter.com/HNStatus >. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.
There may be a post about it in /r/sysadmin
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. :(
But that's clearly not sustainable, it's inevitable they'll pivot to monetizing the service - and that's clearly going to make it less attractive than the heavily-subsidized version people have gotten used to.
I guess the ideas is to lock the users in to the degree that the increasing monetization is put up with, and slowly enough there's no "sticker shock" of a previously-free service suddenly having a price.
I'm constantly amazed people are surprised by this, isn't it obvious that tying to a loss-leader service isn't sustainable?
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!"