• jay@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Solar Bear@slrpnk.net
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    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

  • EliasChao@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Why would you punish your users for using your fucking site? It’s kinda sad how Elon is ruining Twitter.

  • Mayonnaise@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

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

  • RandomBit@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

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

  • Grant_M@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    This is the result of a deranged fascist being born with an apartheid silver spoon in his mouth.

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          1 year ago

          But there’s no proof his father even owned emerald mines!! I mean outside public records and his father’s admission and assertion that it’s true!!

          Name me one piece of evidence outside that!! You can’t

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    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 (not counting time spent replying). Good on him for fighting against social media addiction I guess.

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      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.