• Solar Bear@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    By post he means tweet, right? Google says average tweet length is only around 30 characters and average word length around 5 characters. So let’s say it’s 8 words with abbreviation which would take 2 seconds to read. If it’s 4 seconds per tweet with scrolling then you can now only spend under an hour on Twitter without paying. Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.

    • Thurgo@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I got rate limited in 25 minutes by refreshing my Following feed and reading about people getting rate limited. I don’t think it counts 600 unique tweets since I definitely reloaded the same tweets multiple times.

  • dark_stang@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.

  • Mayonnaise@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.

    • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Just these monolithic social media companies really. And I don’t really consider anything “web 2.0” to be traditional internet. Newgrounds was traditional internet.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I would say the traditional internet was before the time of corporate ruled media, so in that case I’d say corporate internet is killing itself and and media is going back to traditional, at least with respect to the Fediverse.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Nah, Web 2.0 is killing itself. Turns out dipshit greedy pig boys aren’t great at running social platforms

    • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.websiteEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      The fediverse came just in time. I wouldn’t have even heard about lemmy/kbin or mastodon if reddit hadn’t shut down 3rd party apps.

      They seem like they’re trying to bleed a stone.

      • fidodo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s my bet too. They weren’t hosting the site itself on GCP but they were using them for trust and safety services, and I bet that one of those services was anti scraping prevention with things like ip blocking and captchas, which would explain why scraping suddenly became a problem for them the day their contract ended. It can’t be a coincidence.

      • interolivary@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh yeah I completely forgot about that particular idiocy, Elmo gets up to so much stupid shit that it’s hard to keep track.

        But I’d also be willing to bet money on this being somehow at least partially tied to ditching GC, likely due to not being able to pay (at that’s what is implied by them refusing to pay the bill.) I guess Elmo thought “how hard can running some servers be? I’m a rokit skientist” and decided to just skip paying the bill as a power move instead of trying to make a deal with Google, and now the remaining developers, ops people etc. – those poor bastards – are paying the price.

    • grinde@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      This is second-hand, so take it with a grain of salt, but I’ve seen mention of a bug that sometimes causes the same graphql query to be executed in an infinite loop (presumably they’re async requests, so the browser wouldn’t lock and the user wouldn’t even notice).

      So they may essentially be getting DDOS’d by their own users due to a bug on their end.

      Edit: better info: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057

  • RandomBit@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m shocked, SHOCKED that killing the API would lead to web scraping! That was a completely unpredictable outcome.

  • chickenwing@lemmy.filmEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You know the fediverse isn’t perfect but it seems more sustainable than these big social media companies that are not profitable. Reddit and Twitter make no real money but want to host everything on their website and I’m not entirely sure why. Image boards like 4chan purge all their data and the fediverse is spread out to a bunch of different servers. What’s the point of keeping everything forever on one server? Do they really think that all that junk data is valuable?

    Also why did reddit go from just hosting text to hosting images and videos? It used to be a link aggregation site now it’s a never leave our borders site I don’t understand how that’s going to be profitable with how much hosting that data is going to cost.

    Years ago I used to hit like 15 websites a day just for video game news and discussion then it became all reddit.

  • Lazycog@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Let’s hope for another twitter migration wave to mastodon / other fediverse platforms!