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META's Threads is Rate Limiting Users
- armchairhacker 3y agoAny half-decent site rate limits push actions like posting and following, including Mastodon, Lemmy, and Hacker News. Otherwise you have massive bot spam DoS. Ideally a site has data dumps, and maybe even allows you to access static content without a rate limit because that is cheap. I wouldn’t expect this on Threads. In fact, I doubt Threads is much better than Twitter on restricted access, the reasons people want threads are different (mainly, no premium boosting and no Elon)
- dodgson 3y agoSo the lawsuit is right—they are stealing Twitter’s ideas?
- imchillyb 3y agoI will point out that one must now have an account on Twitter to view posts there. End of line.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoI can still see individual posts, though not replies, threads, timelines or searches. Though it's not clear how much of that is intentional vs just broken e.g. I get "Something went wrong. Try reloading." in several places.
- phatskat 3y agoI think this is the slight rollback response to when they originally locked everything until it became known that I doing so they began DDOS’ing themselves. My guess is making top level tweets public mitigated this for now.
- nateb2022 3y agoThe issue was mitigated, and making top level tweets public was intentional. The timeline remains invisible (without DDOS).
- bunnyfoofoo 3y agoIs there a source other than Twitter? I cannot / refuse to load links from there.