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We're a Bunch of Weirdos

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Hi! We're a fairly diverse plural system with various origins and interests! ADHD, autism, likely BPD. Uhm... Yeah, gonna work on this a bit more soon?



Loosf
@Loosf

he fuckingbroke twitter by limiting READING TWEETS

incredible
fucking
uselesss


Loosf
@Loosf

YUP SHIT LIKE THIS, it makes discoverability worse than this here platform that is intentionally made to PREVENT viralization of posts.

It makes reach impossible.
This is such an amazingly bad idea done EXTREMELY poorly


MrMandolino
@MrMandolino

a theory i've seen about it is that, since they made APIs a paid service to an entirely unrealistic level, people who want to gather mass data from Twitter have been scraping the website instead

which puts entire orders of magnitude more stress on the servers

which are already in barely-hanging-together mode after cutting a majority of the staff and the servers themselves

which means they were forced to do something to avoid an actual literal collapse

and the best they could come up with was putting a ridiculously tiny limiter on browsing.

entirely speculation, but damn if it doesn't feel right


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in reply to @Loosf's post:

see this is what makes musk such an innovator, no one else would be fucking unhinged enough to try replicate the predatory selling points of checks notes

hookup apps limiting the amounts of things you can see in the platform to try and squeeze more money out of the userbase