I find Reddit's "subthread" UX awful. Big reason for why I've never used it that much. Hacker News does something similar with subthreads, and as much as I like the content, I never read through a whole thread if it has more than ~30 posts. That's where traditional forums are superior. No problem reading through a whole thread with 200 replies, even when you discover it late.

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Originally posted by Swamper Also, old.reddit.com all the way, lol

+10000

I do like just typing a question into google and adding reddit at the end to find the info I want.

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Originally posted by Swamper I'll download my consciousness into taGPT to keep the lights on after I'm gone

gonna need all those early Essential Mix sets you put up for download a hundred years ago during a holiday season


I'm missing a couple sets... from 1994 to 1997

kthxby

As many of you might have read, Twitter's implemented a temporary limit to how many posts you can read during a day. I've been able to exceed my 800 read posts limit multiple times after they set it in place, but there does seem to exist some arbitrary limit to it. Unintuitively the limit is probably not as easy to implement as it seems using their architecture, unless some Musk-sycophants foresaw he'd want something like this and planned for it in advance. Judging from the error messages in the UI vs. what's returned by the backend it does seem quite ad hoc, which makes me think this limit was not the result of a long hatched plan.

Also, Twitter's UI has been slow and laggy for me for a few weeks now. I had some time to look into it now that my summer vacation started. My theory is that if you use an ad blocker (I use AdBlocker Ultimate), they add a ton of DOM elements in the feed that your ad blocker thinks is an ad, which leads to your ad blocker having to remove so many elements from the DOM that your UI becomes sluggish, potentially leading to at least some ad blocker users visiting the site less often. Makes sense to me: for Musk a user that sees no ads because of their ad blocker is an unwanted user. As soon as I turned my ad blocker off, things went back to as smooth as they were before.

I've never been an Elon fan, but I believe in his intuition to implement these kinds of almost absurd means to bring Twitter to yield a profit without pushing a critical amount of people off of the platform for it to start dying. There's really no worthy competitor to Twitter right now, so I don't see why he wouldn't do everyhing he can to turn it profitable. Mastodon's neckbeardy idea just doesn't appeal to most Twitter users at all, so you'd really have to be at least twice as rough as Musk is to destroy Twitter completely.

That said, does anyone have any invite codes to Bluesky?

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LOL, even Bluesky had to halt giving out invites now, so many trying to bail on Twitter today. Folks on Mastodon have been having a good ol' belly-laugh over the last 48 hours. Was nice seeing a few dormant Masto' accounts suddenly reactive tho'.

Apparently it was another brilliant brain-fart of an idea on Musk's part to save money that led to this most recent failure, essentially self-DDOSing Twitter in the process, thus creating the need to impose the limit cap. The app still has far too much inertia for it to completely collapse over this, but how many times has something like this happened in the past half-year alone? I can only see things growing ever more enshittenfied the longer Twitter's corpse continues to get propped up Weekend At Bernie's style.

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Someone hooked me up with a Bluesky invite about 10 minutes before they halted new signups, hah. Seems unlikely it will take-off, however. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I would think that the experience of Musk owning Twitter and, more broadly, the experience of Silicon Valley Bank and crypto and all these profitless start-ups the past few years, would make people take all the techno-optimism a little less seriously, but the current hype about 'AI' seems to put paid to this hope.

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Bluesky may have some initial momentum - making it a walled garden like early Facebook certainly gives it an exclusivity glimmer - but it'll be hard pressed to gain the cultural cache Twitter once had. Twitter was sort of a 'right place, right time' app, riding the crest of emergent Web 2.0 social media as everyone and their grandmothers was jacking in. In recent years though, its relevancy has waned, a huge percentage of accounts left derelict while the younger generations don't even bother with it. Twitter only seems important still because news journalists continue using it, even though all data shows their websites don't gain much traffic from it.

As Google+ showed, most regular folks can't be fussed to start whole new social media presence, which is why Meta/Insta's Threads app may have the most success in a post-Twitter world. It already has a massive built-in user base, and that all-important Gen Y/Z demographic on hand. The Fediverse seems to appeal more to Gen X types (*cough*), those weaned on Web 1.0 interface. Bluesky...? I really can't say. Again, maybe fine for those just looking for an escape hatch out of Twitter, but that may all it'll end up being, a refuge for industry insiders.

Though really, Bluesky's main reason for currently existing is to drain VC funds into the pockets of tech-bros.

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Originally posted by JEO I've never been an Elon fan, but I believe in his intuition to implement these kinds of almost absurd means to bring Twitter to yield a profit without pushing a critical amount of people off of the platform for it to start dying. There's really no worthy competitor to Twitter right now, so I don't see why he wouldn't do everyhing he can to turn it profitable. Mastodon's neckbeardy idea just doesn't appeal to most Twitter users at all, so you'd really have to be at least twice as rough as Musk is to destroy Twitter completely.

I don't have time to go dig for it now, but there is a link out there, explaining in detail how difficult it would be to make Twitter profitable (and this was 6+ months ago). Basically, all the huge corporate ad spends/campaigns are planned out well in advance(almost a year)... and a huge chunk of those were not secured in late 2022/early 2023 due to many factors... and the confusion over Blue checkmarks is also the DUMBEST thing ever. You can't piss off your most loyal userbase/revenue stream and expect longevity - on another note, Reddit and its antics (API limits) as of late also baffle me.

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Originally posted by ziptnf After using the official Reddit app for 2 days, I'd agree it's not as good as Apollo, but it's not that bad

SCAB!

I've been able to stay off reddit for a bit and may keep trying. Helps find more time to exercise, read, and watch tv

I guess we can now officially say TA's icon outlasted Twitter's icon.

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Originally posted by Mebot gonna need all those early Essential Mix sets you put up for download a hundred years ago during a holiday season I'm missing a couple sets... from 1994 to 1997 kthxby

if you actually need these my guy i can hook you up i have all EMs going back to the beginning

also for some reason on my desktop i’m getting that gateway timeout error bs again, it’s a client issue cuz it works fine incognito but chrome caching is too aggressive