I genuinely don’t get it.

And three reasons to avoid it:

No, people are worried about CSAM because if it exists, isn’t squashed, and people aren’t jailed for it, then it leads to more of it being created which means more abused children.

I made a Mastodon accound ages ago, way before Twitter started to go down. It was a ghost town so I abandoned it. I dusted it off when Elon happened to Twitter... and immediately deleted it, because the instance it was on had been taken over by CP... illustrated, sure, but very disturbing nonetheless, and some very…

So based purely on your limited, anecdotal evidence, you’re saying these researchers (who unlike you, performed actual research) are wrong?

I’m not saying that these posts don’t exist, but I have 3 Mastodon accounts on 3 of the biggest instances, and I haven’t seen a bad post yet.

They aren't. The author seems to have a misunderstanding of the basics of rate limiting. Threads is not planning to rate limit VIEWS. It's planning to rate limit posting to avoid spammers being able to firehose thousands of scripted comments.

Gizmodo: It’s a universally acknowledged, objective fact that Threads is terrible, it’s full of terrible things and terrible people, also it’s copying Twitter’s worst features, so no wonder people are leaving it in droves, it’s already imploding. Ugh, Threads is just terrible, why would people want to be there, it’s…

They’re likely going about it smartly. You find a pattern that bots are using and then label similar-acting users. After the change is implemented, you see if there’s a pattern in those same users. Since it’s targeting spammers, the rate limit will likely be how many times they can post. 

Exactly. Implementing rate limiting in a new platform while they figure out spam/scrape patterns makes sense, especially since Threads is different enough from Instagram. Twitter not having that (or more likely, firing the team that handled it) after having roughly the same gist for 15 years is just idiotic.

Yeah exactly. Rate limiting is a tool, how and why it is used is what is important.

And threads seems targeted at spammers/bots. Basically saying that if you have been “wrongly” rate limited, you can contact Meta/threads. Twitter basically rate limited everyone (with blue checks getting a higher limit), but didn’t distinguish bots and regular users.

Don’t make me defend Meta.

It also depends on WHAT the rate limit is. Twitter’s rate limits for non blue checks were pathetically low, you could run out of tweets in 5-10 minutes if you were scrolling briskly. If Meta’s rate limits are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, that’s not a huge deal.

I am loath to defend anything Meta and especially Threads, but rate limiting in and of itself isn’t necessarily bad and can be a tool to prevent bot spamming. But because Musk is a dolt it was implemented on Twitter in the most haphazard and ham-fisted manner possible so it was, as is now tradition, a total debacle.

This was the first miss of the season for me. Trek can and should be funny, but there were just too many goofs that felt like they undermined Spock's character just for the sake of the goof.

but much better. sure, there are some coats of paint by retelling these stories through the lens of modern sensibilities, but they’re just that—coats of paint. this show is not saying anything substantially new, doing anything substantially new, or breaking any ground

Oh yeah, the way the show is handling her character has been wonderful. But I worry that by creating this rift that they’re so focused on creating a conflict that divides them (so that he can explore romance with Chapel) that they won’t properly address T’Pring’s very legitimate reason for being upset with him.

I really love Gia Sandhu’s portrayal of T’Pring, and I was over the moon that Mia Kirshner came back as Amanda. I also absolutely loved Sevet; T’Pring’s dad is such a lovable goofball, and I would love to see more of him.

yeah, i’m sorry, and i know i’m gonna get crucified for this, but SNW this season just is not doing it for me. i’ve never liked—or more importantly, i’ve never bought—Ethan Peck as Spock less than in this episode. his hijinx came off so tryhard; it felt like it was normal Spock trying to act like all-human-Spock, and…