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Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by misnome »

echelon wrote: post #147
redox99 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Mastodon simply discussing certain topics will get you banned, and instances that don't ban those users get defederated. I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.

> On Mastodon simply discussing certain topics will get you banned, and instances that don't ban those users get defederated. This is why P2P is superior. Federation nodes can be used to strong-arm collective behavior against the will of individual users. I don't mind being exposed to liberal and conservative thought. I want to consume almost the entire spectrum of human discourse so that I can synthesize ideas for m…

Then just make your own instance?

Or is the complaint that you don’t have the power to force yourself on people who don’t want to read your shit?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by vidarh »

0xblinq wrote: post #111
Macha wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point of it is that it isn't a company but a standard, so if one instance owner goes crazy and patches ads in you can move to another (or your own) and keep your network

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m still new to it. Wouldn’t you have the same problem as with an email address? I mean, your handle or whatever it is called would still point to that instance/owner right? Or is there some kind of “DNS” or registry so you can move your handle to other instances?

Assuming the old instance doesn't just totally shut down, you can trigger a "move" process that makes your followers automatically re-follow your new address.

On top of that, you can host your own webfinger alias, as sibling suggests, which lets you have an unchanging address that forwards to your current server. But note that accounts follows URI's not the handles, so you still need the move process to migrate existing followers.

It's not by any means perfect, but it's improving (e.g. the move process is relatively new) and probably will keep improving.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by bigbillheck »

screye wrote: post #140
hinkley wrote: post #120

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When someone says, "certain topics will get you banned" that doesn't make me judge the platform, that makes me judge the person. People are going to assume it's something you don't want to name, if you won't name it.

Come on, in a lot coastal discourse it is practically taboo to mention vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population. Mastodon instances are largely moderated by people from the other 30%. You are free to judge if you want. But don't pretend this is a violation of publicly accepted morals in the 1st world.

> vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population.

Name three.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by mejari »

redox99 wrote: post #109
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #28

Meanwhile, I can see this very Mastadon post with no login just fine. And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick. ...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.

On Mastodon simply discussing certain topics will get you banned, and instances that don't ban those users get defederated. I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.

>I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.

Musk literally just said that the term 'cis' is a slur that will get you banned.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by bravoetch »

lamontcg wrote: post #143

I think we're about at the point where the people who predicted chaos at twitter after Elon basically fired most of the experienced engineers have been proven correct. The duct tape is all coming apart at the seams now. It isn't quite as decisive as a submarine imploding, and ceasing to exist, but it has turned into a brightly burning tirefire.

25 years of products being honed for shareholder value, instead of customer or user value. We may be at peak consumer tolerance for anti-pattern, in-app purchase, subscription-model, ad-packed, data-siphoning, dopamine driven, gated experiences.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by cududa »

amluto wrote: post #88
cactusplant7374 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did Elon pay the AWS bill? That seems like a likely culprit. Twitter instances are being forcibly shutdown.

Twitter operates its own datacenters.

Yeah but they use GCS for auth, moderation, and caching. They apparently haven’t been paying Google since April and the contract expired June 30th

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Waterluvian »

Topfi wrote: post #126

Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement. Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof. I can of…

At least once have I done a CC blast as a form of insurance when being asked to do something absolutely boneheaded.
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