#blueksy had 18k signups yesterday before they closed down registration temporarily for server load, which is 10% of their size in a day. Otherwise they had between 2k and 4k signups per day. Considering that the team didnt hand out extra invite codes, this is a clear indication that over the last month bluesky's growth actually was not limited by invite codes. There was simply a large number of invite codes floating around in the system unused. A catalyst was needed to boost their growth again
This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.
The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.
In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.
The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.
This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.
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@NotTheOnlyGamer maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to try and farm internet points. It might make so people engage in actual discussion rather than try to be the internet’s funny man.
How can you block a whole domain? I’m seeing a lot of NSFW posts from one Lemmy instance that aren’t being flagged as such. I could block the Magazine, but I would like to block the whole instance outright.
Side note, it is kinda annoying that you have to go inside the Magazine to block it.