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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by smcl »

brigandish wrote: post #966
smcl wrote: post #867

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Why do you say Twitter is moving in a positive direction? My experience is that I dislike their app and they killed the one I liked (Tweetbot), it's frequently down (I still get the "Something went wrong" error), and any kind of conversation is dead because blue-check replies (usually quite low-quality) are prioritised. There are other reasons to dislike today's Twitter that I needn't go into here, but these are enou…

A few reasons, the first being that I can actually log in again after 2 or 3 years, as the login was broken for me for that long so I can't say I was a fan of what was going on before. I had several frustrations before but that, as you can imagine, pissed me off quite a bit. The second being free speech, I'm a big supporter of that and there's certainly more of that now. It's not perfect but I'm not going to throw th…

It sounds like the login problem and the free speech policy (which I think we won't agree on but that's by the by) are the main issues. But it's interesting we have completely alternate impressions how it was before/after Musk. After the initial growth explosion when Twitter launched (and a few encounters with the fail whale) it stabilised and always felt pretty reliable for me. Whereas now downtime is commonplace again, and it feels a bit self-inflicted. Now that the company has axed staff, stopped paying bills and is going to attempt a rapid migration off AWS, I don't have much hope that this will get better.

But to your last sentence - I ended up trying Mastodon, found a nice server, downloaded a familiar app (Ivory by TapBots, the team who made Tweetbot - RIP) and found a pretty good bunch of people to follow so I'm pretty happy there. I probably wouldn't have otherwise tried it had I been able to continue using Tweetbot. I'd be happier if both existed and I could bounce between them, but if Twitter melts into obscurity I'll be a little sad but it would be fine.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by smoldesu »

unconed wrote: post #902
ineedasername wrote: post #483

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>has made way for free-speech Here’s just a few of the people (in these cases journalists) that Elon has banned. It’s not hard to find other examples of censorship either. That’s his right, he owns all of it, but he lied about ideals of free speech. If it’s speech he doesn’t like, he kills it: Ryan Mac Drew Harwell Micah Lee Matt Binder Aaron Rupar Donie O’Sullivan Tony Webster EDIT: these bans were related to report…

Elonjet was bait by people with an axe to grind and a chip on their shoulder, and if this isn't blindingly obvious, I have a bridge to sell you. There is no doubt that, after firing Vijaya Gadde (sp?), the corporate focus has shifted away from censoring every single tweet, and more towards letting people say what they want. This does not mean every single tweet is left up, or that annoying Elon isn't a catastrophical…

> There is no doubt that [...] the corporate focus has shifted away from censoring every single tweet

It is absolutely unbelievable that anyone could say this when every Tweet is currently censored to non-members.

I've traditionally considered the Dorsey administration to be the worse steward, but this is an insane take to steelman considering how self-conscious the past few months of banning has gotten.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by shippintoboston »

paxys wrote: post #588
buitreVirtual wrote: post #579

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In this job market, it's hard. And many engineers are on H1B visas so it's even harder to jump ship.

If they truly cannot get another job despite trying hard for 15 months then really they should be thanking Musk for giving them a steady paycheck when no one else in the industry will.

What a bootlicker you are

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by guilyio »

echelon wrote: post #163
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.

I'm LGBT and my spouse is trans. I don't believe you should silence anti-trans rhetoric. I believe you should engage it. The ability for /r/conservative to ban my counter arguments is just as harmful as Mastodon shutting down the anti-trans positions. Conversation is what moves us forward and is how we find commonality. I grew up religious and conservative. I changed a lot of my viewpoints through friendly conversati…

I agree with this, I think the only way we'll get answers to the most controversial and divisive issues are for people to discuss them. Especially since many viewpoints being shouted down as "anti-trans" are actually very reasonable and need more discussion.

For example, the fairness and safety issues with regards to males competing in women's sports, or the issues of safety and dignity in women's prisons when males are incarcerated there.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by bart_spoon »

beaned wrote: post #442
unconed wrote: post #422

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Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels. The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everyth…

There's definitely a strong element of people here rooting for Twitter to fail because they dislike Elon's politics.

It’s not his politics, it’s him personally. Many find him an arrogant, loathesome baffoon and an asshole, even outside of the political realm. Obviously many people are rooting for him to fail.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Consultant32452 »

epups wrote: post #880
Consultant32452 wrote: post #742

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I don't understand why anyone, at any job that is not C-level, has an attitude of anything other than collecting your paycheck. I care about my professional reputation and my career, but I don't care at all about the well-being of the company that has hired me to perform some task. I will advise to the best of my ability, but if they blow themselves up, why should I lose any sleep? That's their problem, not mine. Det…

This is healthy but some of us find themselves in a position where caring about the company has tangential benefits like bonuses, stock options, que promotions and other objectives with a well defined incentive for you to personally care about it.

In my experience the difference between the average bonus you get by plodding along and the amazing bonus is either your boss likes you on a personal level or you killed yourself to get it. I have never seen a case where the $ difference between the average bonus and amazing bonus is worth the metaphorical "killing yourself" to earn it.

My recommendation is to recognize the stock options, bonuses, etc. as the emotional manipulations they are. Either perform the tasks or don't, but try to avoid getting emotionally bogged down in it. Instead, lift your head up and look around at the broader economy and make your decision based on that. Most of the time the fastest path to a promotion, higher income, etc. is to leave.

The better place to seek emotional fulfillment and validation is at home with your family.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Consultant32452 »

golergka wrote: post #842
Consultant32452 wrote: post #742

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I don't understand why anyone, at any job that is not C-level, has an attitude of anything other than collecting your paycheck. I care about my professional reputation and my career, but I don't care at all about the well-being of the company that has hired me to perform some task. I will advise to the best of my ability, but if they blow themselves up, why should I lose any sleep? That's their problem, not mine. Det…

Even one of the first 10 employees with single percentage digit options?

Buy a lottery ticket instead. Same result and less cost to you.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by bart_spoon »

nashashmi wrote: post #649
tmpz22 wrote: post #413

Can we please recognize that this is a holiday weekend and Elon rammed a big release forcing his engineers to come in and iterate multiple patches over the last 12 hours.

The arrogance of the guy is so huge, hubris does not touch him. Thoughts are with the programmers. What I’m more surprised about is how gum and shoestring the twitter engineering is now a days. They put in no emphasis on doing deep divides into the code base and instead opt to do the simplest shortest fix. And it causes problems.

Often the simplest shortest fix is the result of management’s directives. “We need this thing done yesterday” leads to the shortest fix, which compounds over time. Then the same managers wonder why it’s so hard to make changes or implement things in the future, without understanding their insistence on taking the path of least resistance is the direct cause.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by bart_spoon »

TheHappyOddish wrote: post #708
voganmother42 wrote: post #667

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Is this really easier than consulting a calendar? Its the weekend before the 4th of July, the independence day for USA - many employers give employees Monday and Tuesday off, creating a potential four day break during what is typically very good weather - that being said Twitter is presumably (still) an international company with people in all different holiday areas.

I searched "what holiday is it this weekend" on kagi and found nothing. I don't know what country GP is in and I haven't heard about any public holidays this weekend. The "America is the default" is tiring. The US makes up ~ 5% of the population, and most of us do not default to American thinking.

I guarantee you well over 50% of this website is American or lives currently in America. Twitter is also an American company so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots and understand that the commenter is referring to the US.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by mcint »

delecti wrote: post #934
rideontime wrote: post #467

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I managed to hit the (newly raised?) rate limit simply by tapping that link. What a circus.

Yeah, between the rate limit, and the algorithmic weighting toward "blue" users, there's very little incentive to interacting with high-follower accounts at the moment.

I hold that as an instrumental belief in trying to use twitter well. Just follow <20k accounts who are near me in-person, or in social-graph. It feels more like a group chat app, and less like the weight of the world, advertising/thread-vertizing hole, and I avoid much of the convenient dunks or quote-hate-fest.
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