I didn’t like how it liked out of the box. But I customised it until I liked it. I did switch to Sync later, but I would go back to boost any time, it was good.
If your only goal is to reduce bots, then yes it should be successful. However, this limits the amount of time people can spend on the app. Which is the antithesis of what a successful social media platform wants to do and what ad agencies what to do.
Ultimately if he sticks with this it’s going to be a death blow for the platform.
I don’t see how this limits bots at all. You can simply spin up a hundred thousand bots and you’ll be able to crawl 30 million posts a day. At best it will slow bots down for a week while they refactor how their systems work.
I’m not familiar with Twitter, but putting a cap on how much content you can view on a social media website doesn’t seem like a smart move. If people are seriously doom-scrollers and hit the wall, they won’t be happy. “Free speech absolutists” will be pissed when they see that there’s a limit to their access to “free speech.” Involving paid teirs also looks greedy.
All of that aside, there are better ways to fight bots rather than limiting their daily access. Bots will still be able to scrape a large amount of data daily. Why put a cap on how many posts you can view in a day instead of detecting accounts who are viewing posts at a much higher speed? I doubt most human users will interact at the speed of a bot, and the accounts who do can be verified as real.
Writing a code to detect bots is harder than putting a usage cap, though. That would require employees and Musk actually asking for someone to do something he can’t.
Supposedly if you spend about 10 minutes reading tweets, skimming through replies, etc, you’ll hit the 300 post limit and be unable to use the app until the next day. Only letting people use the site for 10 minutes is clearly bad. And most people just are not going to pay to be able to use the app.
It’s astounding, seeing how fast new communities are being founded and populated. I’m not much of a “community starter” type, but I’m quite excited to find a new home for the shitpost-tier OC I make. I’m also sincerely fascinated to see how all these new places coexist/cross-pollinate.
Truly though. Less than 3k users a month ago and now over 50k and counting? Basically everyone here is looking for a reddit replacement. Hopefully those 3k other people don’t mind lmao
Maybe it was just me but Musk has never seemed like someone who actually understood tech. Just a rich guy who buys up other’s work and talks a big game. I knew the second I heard he bought Twitter it was going to crash and burn. He’s doing it way faster than I thought possible.
Of course he will eventually say this was all on purposes and not that he is crap at business and tech.
It’s not just you because it’s the fact. I can confidentally say that Elon Musk knows no shit. He is just a lucky guy who happened to be born in a well-off family.
SpaceX, Tesla, etc, he didn’t buils them with his knowledge like in case of Microsoft and Google, he just hire dev and I bet the only job he’s doing is that posting in social media to trick people thinking he is a genius.
Ah like the 100 year old hyperloop idea he invented and dropped because it was a stupid idea? (that musk fans still think he is working on for some reason)
Yes, everything is loading very slowly. The voting doesn’t seem like just slow loading, though. When I click the button nothing happens at all, with or without a delay.
This is a blast from the past. It takes me back to 13 or so years ago when all of us Digg users made the migration over to Reddit.
That’s not a bad thing, though, as this place has promise! Hopefully increasing numbers of Reddit users take the plunge as the site continues its death spiral.
I thought the site was unusable (on mobile at least) until I started using wefwef. It’s literally just Apollo - to the point that I’m not sure it’s legal lol. Highly recommend it or some other client over trying to use the raw website.
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