Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.

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[–] 153 points 3 years ago (22 children)

I know it's getting into conspiracy realms, but there seems to be a large right-wing buyout of social media. Reddit and Twitter two of the best Independent News sources in North America I've already been hit and even though people will argue they are not true new sources, they allow smaller groups to be heard globally. Young people don't realize how limited news broadcast were before the 2000s. Almost all media was owned by about 50 people worldwide and good luck getting something published that wasn't in their agenda. You could see it throughout the 50s and 60s as people being labeled radical when their views didn't coincide with the media magnets. I try not to be an alarmist but I think we're heading for another dark ages.

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  • [–] 75 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I don’t think it’s planned at that level, it’s just people like Elon think they deserve and earned everything they have; and the alt-right preachers tell them that they have it because god deems you worthy. It becomes a big circlejerk and then hen you have the Elon’s drinking that flavor-aid.

    But, and I mean this, before 2000 you could still get the information; you just had to put more effort into obtaining it. That was obviously a barrier too high for many, but it was not unfindable or inaccessible.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Elon buying Twitter was pushed for by Peter Theil, who is a right-wing nut job. He's the new Koch as far as funding right wing causes goes.

    Musk was played like a patsy, but has accomplished the goal of turning twitter into a right wing hellscape.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It’s absolutely coordinated

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    There is definitely coordinated shit going on, but Elon is a tool and not a mastermind. The people coordinating this shit think Elon is an idiot. So Elon isn’t part of some vast conspiracy but he is a tool of the vast conspiracy. He just thinks he’s special.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I think you’re bing a bit alarmist. We’re posting here aren’t we? Getting started here wasn’t much more complicated than getting started on reddit and it will hopefully get easier going forward.

    It seems to me that what is being attempted is enclosure of social media; like many enclosures before it. I don’t think this is a coordinated plot but rather wealthy right-wingers making the rational decisions to secure their own interests. Driven in part by rising interests rates. But ultimately the difference today is we have the ability to create alternatives to assert our own interests.

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    [–] [S] 81 points 3 years ago (28 children)

    And it's worse than you think. While this is a "bug", it is based on a feature that Elon is actively rolling out that will be rate limiting how many tweets you're allowed to view in a day.

    That seems to be where the current issue stems from, likely something where it's looking at the amount you've read in the previous 24 hours.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    lmao, this is fucking hilarious
    I can't believe I'm saying this but... based elon?
    The feddiverse as a whole might be soon flooded with people tho, prepare yourselves, they comin'

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He's removed all of the features of Twitter at this point. It no longer is even the site it was created to be.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'm new, still getting the ropes. Honestly I've seen more engagin comments in the last hour than I have on either Reddit or Twitter for the last week.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago*

    So to combat system manipulation... he's giving more power to users that can better manipulate the system.

    People think this genius is going to give us colonies on Mars when all he's successfully done is take credit for other people's work, buy a platform for hate with investor's money, and give Twitter investors a deeply painful colonoscopy.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    I support Elon’s decision on this and hope it becomes permanent. That way, the exodus from Twitter can continue and reputable organizations will stop considering Twitter a valid platform.

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago

    Twitter finally shut down the API for 1st party apps /s

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    You can practically hear the money he spent burning in a pit out back.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    What a fantastic idea!

    -Huffman, right now pushing devs to roll it out onto Reddit also \s

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How's firing almost all your IT staff working out for you, Elon?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    First chasing away most advertisers, then requiring an account to even access this site, and now this... the Muskrat actively hates his userbase, doesn't he?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I just find it interesting how the fixation on API and things of that nature is happening all of a sudden across the different platforms.

    You can say it's Musk being Musk or Reddit setting up for their IPO, but a similar thing has been going on with instagram as well. They had rate limiting for a long time for those without accounts. Then back in May it started to get worse. At the same time they began banning/suspending accounts for merely just existing. The common theme was those accounts only had email attached to them.

    It just seems there's a real push to isolate things and Twitter and Instagram really want verification.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's not that interesting. There is an on going AI (llm) craze that requires participants to acquire huge amounts of "clean" data. Reddit and Twitter are platforms that can provide this. So why not cash on it? Also free money is no more so they are all looking to find ways to penny pinch.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    That doesn't explain it IMO. That data is already freely available and LLMs don't need the latest data. So data scraping for AI makes up a miniscule amount of API usage.

    I think it has more to do with inflation. Investors aren't putting their money into risky tech companies as much, and so these companies (twitter, reddit, etc) have to prove they can be profitable for once, and they probably are going to fail to do this. It does mean we can't have nice things for free anymore like API access.

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Elton Muskrat forgot to pay the bills again.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Just a few years ago…even a year ago…I would have thought that was it, the internet has agglomerated around these few sites: Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.

    And then do to mismanagement, the owners of these sites have created an opening for competition.

    I’d never heard of Mastodon until Elon bought Twitter. I’d never heard I’d Lemmy of kbin until Spez decided to shut down the 3PAs.

    These “innovators” are falling into the same traps of as the ghosts of the past. Napster existed because the record industry tries to stop the future, and stop the consumers from getting what they wanted.

    It’s a new day for the internet.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Didn't give the billionaire my money so yeah it took like 10 minutes for me to get the rate exceeded message.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Unintentionally based Melon Husk destroying Twitter from within.

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