621–630 of 761 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was from the book
wow _really_? Sorry, I had no idea someone could be capable of writing a book about virtual worlds and then imagine shutting them down two days a week. My apologies Mr Spielberg.
It really feels like we're witnessing the end of an era. Elon is doggedly piloting Twitter into the ground and Reddit seems strangely compelled to follow his lead. Reddit may recover - I'm not so sure about Twitter. What technologies will take their place? In a time where it's never been easier to stand up your own website/forum/what have you, could we possibly see a gradual return to a pre-corporate Internet?
I'm always a bit surprised how few people realized how many "nice things" from the last decade plus have been heavily subsidized by VC money (which itself was created from low interest rates). Every cool startup that people loved started by burning cash. This made Uber cheap, DoorDash cheap, Youtube helpful and creative, Facebook about connecting with classmates, Twitter a free public forum, Reddit a playground for f…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund has reduced the market value of its equity stake in Twitter for a third time, now putting it at $6.55 million. That’s down from the nearly $20 million the Fidelity fund valued its stake at in October. From today, according to https://apnews.com/article/twitter-fidelity-musk-value-08c64... . It doesn't sound like it increased its valuation of twitter in any way tbh.
TIL that June 1st is "today" July 1st... In reality that was a month ago, and on June 30th they increased the value https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation...
Still significantly down.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. Hey, just as an FYI, this comment doesn't make any sense. Why would blocking people from viewing the TL on the home page cause Twitter more stress?
I think he was trying to say that the Frontend of the Twitter timeline is not aware of the new request limit, and when that limit is reached it just retries the request, as it would in a normal network error, and keeps in retrying resulting on DDOS. But I don't believe on that because Twitter is a billion dollar company and that kind of mistake is dumb. So idk.
Not because I’m addicted to them but because the barrier to access them is sufficiently high that I virtually never access them and for Twitter especially (my Reddit/Apollo just shut off yesterday) it’s decreasingly occupying space in my mind, creating more “boredom” which is super useful for imagination and introspection.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean to tell me that you can't actually run a tech company with three engineers and a Mac Mini?
Have you checked how many engineers Mastodon has? https://joinmastodon.org/de/about Four.
The Monthly Active Users (MAUs) per engineer for Twitter is approximately 600,000, while for Mastodon it's around 280,000.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are they still paying exorbitantly for podcaster exclusivity?
Oh yeah, podcasts. I honestly don't know why they're so desperate on attracting people for podcasts. Podcasts are much more unprofitable compared to normal music