META's Threads is Rate Limiting Users

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9 points·lemoncookiechip··7 comments

Any half-decent site rate limits push actions like posting and following, including Mastodon, Lemmy, and Hacker News. Otherwise you have massive bot spam DoS.

Ideally a site has data dumps, and maybe even allows you to access static content without a rate limit because that is cheap. I wouldn’t expect this on Threads. In fact, I doubt Threads is much better than Twitter on restricted access, the reasons people want threads are different (mainly, no premium boosting and no Elon)

I will point out that one must now have an account on Twitter to view posts there. End of line.

I can still see individual posts, though not replies, threads, timelines or searches.

Though it's not clear how much of that is intentional vs just broken e.g. I get "Something went wrong. Try reloading." in several places.

I think this is the slight rollback response to when they originally locked everything until it became known that I doing so they began DDOS’ing themselves. My guess is making top level tweets public mitigated this for now.

The issue was mitigated, and making top level tweets public was intentional. The timeline remains invisible (without DDOS).

Is there a source other than Twitter? I cannot / refuse to load links from there.

So the lawsuit is right—they are stealing Twitter’s ideas?

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