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X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay
- hereme888 5mo agoI stopped paying for a blue checkmark when I noticed so many paid accounts were managed by AI bots anyways, and my account is shadow-banned when I post unpopular opinions.
- pixl97 5mo agoFree speech, for those that pay.
- TooSmugToFail 5mo agoSo much more than my average of zero posts and zero replies per year.
- pixl97 5mo agoHeh, my experience with Twitter. Signed up, got a notice 30 seconds later I needed to give my phone number. Me: fuck that, what do the need that for. Twitter a week later: Oh, by the way we gave all your phone numbers to hackers because we suck.
- spiderfarmer 5mo agoNext step: don’t follow any accounts, be greeted with a feed that’s filled to the brim with ragebait content posted mostly by bots and the people who act like them.
- peterlk 5mo agoBluesky, threads, mastodon, and everything else built on activitypub AT, etc. are still there. You can leave X behind; the only thing stopping you is the other people who could also leave X but are still there because you’re there. There are real problems with the fediverse, but they are solvable and the biggest problem is the social connections/stickiness. So start with that!
- aaron695 5mo ago[dead]
- Imustaskforhelp 5mo agoYea, I really want bluesky,mastodon to succeed in the sense of actually having people who are talking about things that I am interested in and more connections in general. I would also wish to point out lemmy is an interesting project too. I don't really use twitter anyway but I was frequent on bluesky but didn't really get any responses whatsoever sometimes so I ended up not using it either. Hackernews and some other forums are honestly just about it for me at a certain point but I do wish to relook at bluesky and mastodon
- TFNA 5mo agoI’d argue that microblogging inherently trends towards social pathologies, since there is little room for nuance in such short-form text. Not to mention that those other platforms already have their own established cultures and shibboleths, where not everyone coming from a competing network will feel comfortable. If someone manages to shake off an X addiction, they might be better off giving up microblogging entirely.
- kccqzy 5mo agoMicroblogging in the fediverse somehow does not trend towards social pathologies. I just don’t ever feel the need to shorten my posts because the word limit is generally generous enough for significant nuance. It’s like HN: comments tend to be short just because of the medium, but longer comments with significant nuance are possible.
- TFNA 5mo ago> Microblogging in the fediverse somehow does not trend towards social pathologies. The fediverse, too, trends towards social pathologies; something or some things is causing craziness on all the mentioned platforms, even if the exact manifestations vary. For example, well into 2023, almost daily among the top-ranking posts on Mastodon was one advocating for harsh anti-Covid measures: e.g. that live music and theatre should never have been permitted again, insisting on masking in public at all times, etc. This was after countries lauded for their responsible Covid response had already returned to normality. The fact that posts like these could get such a welcome reception, sending them to the top, says something about how highly online and out of touch a significant portion of fediverse users are.
- 866-RON-0-FEZ 5mo agoIf you're posting to social media as a casual user more than 50 times a day, you're either a spam bot or severely mentally ill. Those numbers are hit by 24/7 news organizations with large social media teams on staff. They obviously have the means to pay for professional-level access. Hitting the limit should unironically be a sign to go outside and touch grass.
- DoesntMatter22 5mo agoWould be a lot even for a news org TBH
- turtlesdown11 5mo agotrying to monetize the botnets
- Havoc 5mo agoWith few exceptions (shared corp accounts like apple's) 50 posts should just be the hardcap overall. You don't have 200 good insights per day that the world absolutely needs to hear...
- dgellow 5mo agoIt’s really sad that microblogging evolved to become „I share a message expected to reach as far as possible“. The interesting about microblogging was the small scale imho, you have a few friends you’re sharing content with. Yes it is public but you don’t expect your posts to be seen by everyone. That has completely been lost
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- QuercusMax 5mo agoYou seem to think "micro" refers to the audience, not the content. Assuming the historical context at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging is accurate, it's not clear that it ever was meant to have a limited audience. What you're describing is more akin to what MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc were like back in the day, which is quite a different thing than tumblr or twitter.
- dgellow 5mo agoNo what I’m describing is the experience of microblogging when it was a thing. You were sharing short status updates and thoughts mostly for your friends and niche of interests. Which is why people didn’t have much problems sharing personal things, your expectations regarding who will read your posts were mostly around people you know IRL or online. That of course changed a lot once it became about engagement and monetizing an audience. I would watch a movie, think of something about it, share it, and the expectations wasn’t „I want the world to know what my thoughts on movie X are“. It was „I think friend Y will like that, will be fun to discuss when I see them next time“. But yes there is some sort of overlap with how people were using Facebook and others. I personally think the retweet feature is one of the worst thing ever invented in the social media space exactly because it goes against the audience expectations of the author
- tqi 5mo agoI would pay to see no more than 50 posts per account per year in my feed. (And 0 replies)
- spiderfarmer 5mo agoJust leave. If you’re staying because of your ‘audience’, you’ll find a new one elsewhere. Staying on X associates you with crypto scams, rage bait content and worse.
- krapp 5mo agoI'm literally only staying for two reasons. 1) People I know personally follow me and if I delete my account my username will be farmed by bots and I don't want those people harassed and scammed. 2) Following Aya Nishitani.
- lacewing 5mo agoAnd if you need to post more than 50 tweets and 200 replies a day, you should probably pay a therapist before you pay Elon. Sincerely, that kind of engagement with total strangers is just terrible in the long haul. I've never seen anyone with that kind of usage who seemed to be happy and well-adjusted.
- cybercatgurrl 5mo agoas much as i hate X and Elon i kinda agree. the only people posting that much are going to be business accounts and im pretty sure that’s who this is targeting
- jerlam 5mo agoBusiness accounts, bots, and flop influencers
- vlod 5mo agoNot sure if this really matters that much. If one don't pay, the algorithm (I believe?) ranks your comment at the bottom of the blue check marks and it's rare to get any sort of engagement. I expect the same algorithm ranking with new posts. I read but rarely engage as what's the point.
- ticulatedspline 5mo agoseems like a good move. If the lame rebranding, platform enshittificaiton, or Musk's dubious political alignment and all around repulsiveness didn't turn them off yet, and they're actually posting that much that's pretty much a captive audience. Might as well squeeze some cash outta them.
- vga1 5mo agoI could see myself paying for a service like X, so that the service quality would be higher due to all the participants putting some money in. And that would be a nice way to keep bots out of the network. Bluesky is a leftist echo chamber, which is irritating in its own way.
- Chinjut 5mo agoThe implementation is buggy. Very many users report being banned while being nowhere near the usage limit: https://devcommunity.x.com/t/your-request-looks-like-it-might-be-automated-please-fix-this-nonsense/265517/70 https://devcommunity.x.com/t/your-request-looks-like-it-migh...
- Chinjut 5mo agoApparently, even paying users are being prevented from posting.
- wookmaster 5mo agoWhy is anyone using X? There's so many good alternatives now.