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Just gonna leave this little gem here, enjoy.
How the fuck is Reddit closing their API behind a ridiculous paywall only the SECOND stupidest social media move of the day
Boy I sure picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
Well I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines!
The day is not over yet
I for one am cheering its demise.
wow, this is actually amazing.
You’d think a rapidly developing service like Lemmy might face restrictions like that due to resources but Twitter? Mismanagement beyond belief.
Limit rating your core audience in their primary task is completely batshit crazy. Thank fuck for mastodon.
I don’t even use Twitter anymore, but after this, I went there just to delete my two accounts.
spez right now:
You know things are going well when you have to restrict content consumption on your content platform.
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.
Miss the good ole days of imgur, YouTube, and porn on gfycat
As Cory Doctorow termed it, it’s the enshittification of the Internet - all for the sake of “shareholder value” It’s a proper “can’t see the wood for the trees” business
Miss the good ole days of porn on gfycat
The funny thing is I’m pretty sure replies, tweets, and retweets all count toward that (if they’re using the same rules as the API), so basically that just kills the majority of your user base.
He is so unbelievably dumb?? 😅
Wow that’s my Twitter and Reddit account deleted within 24 hours
Fucking lol.
Keep punching yourself in the dick, elmo.
Everyone always saying “rip Twitter” but y’all never leave, so…
I know, somehow people aren’t leaving despite Elon’s best efforts.
You really can’t make this stuff up, it’s beyond my head how someone can make those choices. But I mean advertisers already ditched Twitter long ago, so why not squeeze the last money out of it that you can get.
