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> I don’t use Twitter because I like Twitter, but because that’s where the people that I like to interact with (mostly writers) are For these cases, I follow t

> I don’t use Twitter because I like Twitter, but because that’s where the people that I like to interact with (mostly writers) are For these cases, I follow the Twitter accounts on Mastodon by way of the mirror sites - bird.makeup is the most popular I believe. "But you can't respond to people there". Yeah, but I don't care. Since Elon changed the meaning of the blue checkmark and made it effectively pay-to-play, the chances of someone seeing my responses are effectively zero.

tivert 3y ago
> For these cases, I follow the Twitter accounts on Mastodon by way of the mirror sites - bird.makeup is the most popular I believe. Didn't Musk break Twitter a few weeks back in a hamfisted attempt to deal with scrapers? What that was he was fighting against?
- rglullis 3y ago
  That was his excuse, there are some alternative theories that say that he put the rate limits only to cut his AWS bills. Anyway, it should be known that fighting against scrapers is a lost cause. Nitter is still going strong, BirdSiteLive (the software that powers bird.makeup) as well, and even if he really blocked these alternative methods, I wouldn't be surprised if the archive.org people came up with some browser extension that could help replicate the content elsewhere.
  - tayo42 3y ago
    Twitter doesn't use aws for anything important... Lol people's just say anything online
    - rglullis 3y ago
      Replace AWS with whatever cloud provider they use...
      - tayo42 3y ago
        they dont use a cloud provider...
        rglullis 3y ago
        https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.
        tayo42 3y ago
        I worked there, I think i know what I'm talking about
        rglullis 3y ago
        So is the information of Twitter having a contract with Google a complete fabrication?
        tayo42 3y ago
        No they have contracts with all of them because of acquisitions and attempts to be less reliant on just the data centers. Google cloud was another attempt to move some workloads or extend into it. But like I said earlier, nothing significant. Real work is done on the data center machines
slimsag 3y ago
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- rglullis 3y ago
  Wow, this seems really bad. Did you ask for your money back?

tivert 3y ago

> For these cases, I follow the Twitter accounts on Mastodon by way of the mirror sites - bird.makeup is the most popular I believe. Didn't Musk break Twitter a few weeks back in a hamfisted attempt to deal with scrapers? What that was he was fighting against?

rglullis 3y ago
That was his excuse, there are some alternative theories that say that he put the rate limits only to cut his AWS bills. Anyway, it should be known that fighting against scrapers is a lost cause. Nitter is still going strong, BirdSiteLive (the software that powers bird.makeup) as well, and even if he really blocked these alternative methods, I wouldn't be surprised if the archive.org people came up with some browser extension that could help replicate the content elsewhere.
- tayo42 3y ago
  Twitter doesn't use aws for anything important... Lol people's just say anything online
  - rglullis 3y ago
    Replace AWS with whatever cloud provider they use...
    - tayo42 3y ago
      they dont use a cloud provider...
      - rglullis 3y ago
        https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.
        tayo42 3y ago
        I worked there, I think i know what I'm talking about
        rglullis 3y ago
        So is the information of Twitter having a contract with Google a complete fabrication?
        tayo42 3y ago
        No they have contracts with all of them because of acquisitions and attempts to be less reliant on just the data centers. Google cloud was another attempt to move some workloads or extend into it. But like I said earlier, nothing significant. Real work is done on the data center machines

slimsag 3y ago

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rglullis 3y ago
Wow, this seems really bad. Did you ask for your money back?