952
Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes
(www.washingtonpost.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
952 points (97.8% liked)
Technology
60112 readers
1924 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
They're going to have a hard time throttling the Fediverse.
Why? Because there are 100 or so moderately active instances with their own url? Or will you expect people who link to the fediverse to use new or obscure instances to indirectly link to things?
Yeah they're not going to have a hard time at all haha
Export a list of largest instances and put them in the firewall QOS, 5 minute job max
Soooooo, none? (Is that the joke?)
A bit of both, actually. With such a diverse amount of instances, covering every possible type of social network, the best they're ever going to throttle the flagships. xD
Yeah, except they federate. They keep lists about who they federate, defederate, and know of in machine readable format
Actually they could do the same thing to any Fediverse link as they are with these news sites' links. They added a 5-second delay from when a twitter user clicks the external link from a twitter post, which is garbage overall, but not "throttling" websites. Yes I skimmed the article.
The headline seems to imply that Twitter controls the internet traffic to non-Twitter sites, which is misleading. Twitter is simply degrading the experience of their own site's userbase, and nobody else. The rest of us can still visit the news sites that Leon Skum hates without Twitter.
Enshittyfication without earning more money? Interesting concept.
Let's call it shittyfication.
True
Why? It's easy to get a list of federated servers, in JSON no less. In an afternoon I could build a tool to block them as they come, testing included
You're still playing whack-a-mole.
Is it really whack a mole if within minutes of federating, a simple automated tool could add them to the list with no human involvement?
I wouldn't say so, at that point it's a trivial technical challenge