I have noticed a lot more timeouts and 500s in the past week or so than I had in the preceding, say, several months. It's already struggling but it's not attracting widespread notice probably because it's a bit subtle and people are used to all software being kind of broken all of the time
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
yeah i mostly use the website and its always been a lil buggy, fantom notifications, failing to load replies etc, havent noticed it being worse yet
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
I had a friend who was locked out yesterday because Twitter forgot how to send the SMS with the login code.
― death generator (lukas), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
uh oh
https://www.inforisktoday.com/twitter-two-factor-authentication-has-vulnerability-a-20475
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
tl;dr you can turn off SMS 2FA for any account whose phone number you know
lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
is that bad?
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
eh, apologies, the details of how twitter does sms 2fa mean it's difficult to spoof a number, i.e. this is bad but it's not very bad.
Ok, it's been pointed out to me that using short codes for this should make it much harder to spoof - they're routed inside the carrier, and the carrier already knows your number— Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) November 16, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
signed back in to read this :| but also lol
What’s a random tweet that pop up in your head and have you dead every time??— 🍀 (@Wh0IsHim) November 8, 2022
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 17 November 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
guys hear me out
now that Musk has driven the value of Twitter into the dumper, what if Twitter users did a massive global GoFundMe and bought him out and ran it as a cooperative, like, I dunno, the Green Bay Packers
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 November 2022 11:44 (one year ago) link
or Barcelona
'MORE THAN A FEED!'
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 November 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link
it could be a pioneer in a new way of running a business, where users and customers are literally in charge of it, and the staff would be represented at board and exec level too
i think what i'm asking is.... "what is to be done?"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 November 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
down! down! to goblin townwe go! my lad!
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
think of the mods tho
― a (waterface), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
i will never think of the mods
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:12 (one year ago) link
:-(
― mod, Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Still the best.
quite a good 48hrs or so:- "I don't ever shower bc I have adhd"- "cooking food for people is a violation of consent"- "poor people should stop doing so much dry cleaning and Peloton"- "If you invite me to an event with food I'm calling the police"— stuart (@punished_stu) November 17, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 November 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
non-showering ADHD person is really missing out, hot showers are pretty much the only time my brain quits spinning around
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
Just FYI, since it seems like Ragnarok is a-comin':
All right, I’m out before the ceiling caves in. Subscribe to my newsletter.https://t.co/McvxexBGlE— burning ambulance (NOW A RECORD LABEL!) (@burn_amb) November 18, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah there’s a real scrambling for the lifeboats vibe rn
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
Time for RSS to make a big comeback
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
Just can’t turn away from the trainwreck. If only NYT had a Twitter collapse meter I could watch to know pseudo-objectively how close we’re getting to impact. Are bookies taking odds on when it will happen? I guess “website total collapse” would have to be very clearly defined if so. RSS would be awesome if A) anyone websites still used it and B) there were options for shitposting (I am recovering to be clear). I still was regularly using the Netvibes RSS client within the past couple of years but it seems like even over that span the popularity of RSS has seriously waned.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
what's great is that in the free marketplace of ideas, the competition to replace twitter is inevitably going to lead to innovation and a better communications product for us all
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
ilx will lose at least 25% of its content when Twitter goes down for good
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
Thank god I was tired of people pasting tweets
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
There should be an ILX template to just post our own posts as tweets. For the sake of nostalgia.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
Is there a bet available in betting markets for predicting times of system disruption/ length of downtime during World Cup?
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
That seems plausible?I think in terms of broader discourse Twitter served its purpose. Everything is so siloed now, maybe it won’t be so bad for some other less granular wannabe public forum to replace it. Unless the replacement really is some chimera of WeChat, Instagram and Parler.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Tons of places still use RSS, I am drowning in articles lol. Including tumblr for your shitpost-reading needs.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Instagram is terminal, aiui
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
CampusKiss.com eyeing a triumphant return
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
really appreciate that twitter didn't really *want* to sell to him, but had a fiduciary duty to its shareholders to accept such a wildly overpriced bid, resulting in the destruction of everything. capitalism!
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
Bring back Makeoutclub!
― emil.y, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
twitter going down is a bad thing
― Dan S, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
It’s funny tho
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
live by the lulz, die by the lulz
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
Wherever will we get our fake news now
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
twitter going down is a bad thingIn the short term yes no argument. But does social media have to be so market-oriented? Is that just a completely naive framework?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
it's going to be hard to build something up like that again that everyone buys into to be heard.
― Dan S, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
Sadly otm
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
People don’t need to be heard rly it was more bad than good
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/i/timeline
― Chris L, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
Best thing Twitter did for the world in general was to allow anyone to yell directly at rich and powerful people, which drove many of them insane, including the richest guy on earth— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) November 12, 2022
― Chris L, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
That’s true we can’t get that back
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
But we can go to their houses!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
you can call their offices and leave a voicemail. it's a great way to yell at ted cruz. boy was he embarrassed!!!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
xxxp "more bad than good" - I guess it depends on what your experience was on twitter
I really liked hearing from the people I loved and followed!
Sure, there were a lot examples of "so-and-so you followed liked this tweet" that I found repulsive, or responses to someone evil whose original tweet I wish I'd never seen, but overall it has been a rewarding experience for me
― Dan S, Friday, 18 November 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
i left twitter in october 2015 and my life has been great except for when people remind me of or direct me to tweets. rest in piss
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed it for years but it was often horrible and it made the world worse
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link