Elon posted this on Twitter (quoted from an private blog since I currently have no way to access twitter):
Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users! Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.
Lets hope that they lift this ban soon.
What nitter instance are you using? I'm getting an error message indicating an empty json document.
I would be careful with using regex for content moderation (see the Scunthorpe problem).
There are open source machine learning models that could be used to detect toxic content. See
I dont know how much compute power you would need to process the content of a lemmy instance using this. But it would be more reliable than regexes.
I switched to AirVPN after finding out that Mullvad disabled port forwarding. I have heard rumors that the did that because of people hosting cheese pizza via their VPN accounts.
The performance of AirVPN does vary, I had to try a couple of countries before I found a server that didn't throttle me (and I only have a 50MBit connection).
Maybe I will try Proton in the future, but then I would have to commit to a 2year subscription or pay a lot more.
How should a car in the middle of this "train" leave it?
Head and tail would have to detach, speed up/slow down to create a safe distance for the car in the middle to change lanes and after that the train has to reconnect? At highway speeds? Seriously?
Captcha solving bots have been around for years (e.g. CapMonster Cloud). Before AI was good enough, it was the job of actual workers (mostly from South America and Southeast Asia) to solve the captchas for a few cents each.
I am on the latest version of the app and it still works after I ignored the popup.
This scheme has been known for several years, but the scammers used to hire writers for a few bucks online. Now they got replaced by AI, unsurprisingly.
Amazing guide to recommend YT Premium when people came up with an adblock filter for this after a few days.
I'm definitely not using this platform anymore, but Twitter being private also locks away a lot of valuable content (including government announcements, as someone mentioned).