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Comment by gtirloni | Hacker News Reader

What's interesting about this?

Twitter go boom, bluesky announces namecheap integration, threads launches, etc. Its currently relevant for those interested in the next stable state after all this dust settles.

> Twitter go boom

Seems fine to me. Is this like the last 10 times twitter went "boom"?

> Seems fine to me.

What did you do, go to the homepage for 20 seconds to make that in-depth assessment on something very widely-reported for nine straight months now as an ever-engulfing dumpster fire?

It is not fine, take your pick: questionable leadership, wanton firings, bad policies, abuse/harassment, technical problems, legal trouble, fleeing advertisers

As a casual twitter user I've had no issues prior to last week. The throttling was the first thing that has impacted my experience since Musk took over.

It seems like your own assessment of twitter comes from a very emotional place and not from personal experience using it.

It’s both, actually, so I’ll concede that. But I’m emotional about it because I’ve been a user for 16 years, it was the only social media I really used and got value out of, and that has completely changed for me as it has for countless others

Or that some of us aren't casual users who are ignorant/indifferent to what is happening.

It's a small boom, where anonymous and free API access have been cut off. Although I'm pretty sure you can't access or scrape Threads and bluesky anonymously and/or without cost either.

Actually, one of the big points of contention right now over at bluesky is how easily anyone can easily anonymously scrape all its data. Behold, one of many available sites that broadcast the firehose: https://firesky.tv/

Currently the only thing that costs money at bluesky is using your own domain name but making them manage the DNS for this so you don't have to.

Is the tree of who invited who public info too?

That’s literally a feature (the firehose).

How is that a point of contention?

> Twitter go boom

Holding out for which one has the least baby talk crap

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