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Jul. 10th, 2023 05:45 pm* As I've said a few times, problems or no, not good to have all the eggs in one basket. AO3 is under a prolonged DDOS attack and when sites get targeted for this serious of a large scale attack there is usually more than one attack.
While I have gone poking, I assume the following is 100% true "A group presenting themselves as a collective of religiously and politically motivated hackers has claimed responsibility for the attack. Experts do not believe they are honest about their motivation, so we urge caution in believing any reasoning they provide for targeting AO3." Ao3 Tweet. ... also probably no one here needs to be told that taking the statements of the attackers seriously is just going to lead to bad faith drama and BS.
* I keep hearing people complaining about Threads. Thing is, that volume of complaints means lots of people are using it. That frustration only comes from one place. So, I poked my nose in. I have a separate simcard-less device and don't actually use Apple Health so a lot of the privacy stuff doesn't really effect me any more than Instagram. I can't see the point of it, I cannot get seen to save my soul, Zuck is possibly worse than Musk he is just more low-key about shit...
But seeing Elon freak out and do the most humiliating shit like begging Mr. Beast to get attention... if shit's going to be fucked might as well get a laugh out of it?
Also, twitter usage is actually having a serious drop off? On the Phil DiFranco show he showed some posts detailing traffic loss according to Cloudflare. Googling I am seeing a number of articles about declining traffic, top users tweeting less, etc. And those articles are from before the whole view limit thing which made a LOT of companies go 'well, shit, we can't use Elon's twitter for what we use twitter for'. A big problem being gaming companies or anyone who wants to give server updates, suddenly they don't have a good way to set updates to users. They urgently want to be off twitter and on some other chronological site, even if it's a self-hosted forum. *glances at above bullet point* Okay, I'll just fucking say what I've been thinking for a while now: In the current social media climate torching reliable ways to send news to users is dumb as shit. It was dumb as shit before today. That kind of direct route to core users is the stuff social media managers would usually commit felonies to get, and right now would commit major ones. Especially since people getting news second hand has risen dramatically in the past 5 years, good communication to the highly invested long term users is gold, tweets are grass.
* Idiot me got a bad sunburn on my scalp about a week ago and both shampooing and not-shampooing is irritating it and lotion just dries weird on my hair and also gets irritating. I am doing my best to care for it but I may legit shave my head again just to be able to treat the bad spots.
While I have gone poking, I assume the following is 100% true "A group presenting themselves as a collective of religiously and politically motivated hackers has claimed responsibility for the attack. Experts do not believe they are honest about their motivation, so we urge caution in believing any reasoning they provide for targeting AO3." Ao3 Tweet. ... also probably no one here needs to be told that taking the statements of the attackers seriously is just going to lead to bad faith drama and BS.
* I keep hearing people complaining about Threads. Thing is, that volume of complaints means lots of people are using it. That frustration only comes from one place. So, I poked my nose in. I have a separate simcard-less device and don't actually use Apple Health so a lot of the privacy stuff doesn't really effect me any more than Instagram. I can't see the point of it, I cannot get seen to save my soul, Zuck is possibly worse than Musk he is just more low-key about shit...
But seeing Elon freak out and do the most humiliating shit like begging Mr. Beast to get attention... if shit's going to be fucked might as well get a laugh out of it?
Also, twitter usage is actually having a serious drop off? On the Phil DiFranco show he showed some posts detailing traffic loss according to Cloudflare. Googling I am seeing a number of articles about declining traffic, top users tweeting less, etc. And those articles are from before the whole view limit thing which made a LOT of companies go 'well, shit, we can't use Elon's twitter for what we use twitter for'. A big problem being gaming companies or anyone who wants to give server updates, suddenly they don't have a good way to set updates to users. They urgently want to be off twitter and on some other chronological site, even if it's a self-hosted forum. *glances at above bullet point* Okay, I'll just fucking say what I've been thinking for a while now: In the current social media climate torching reliable ways to send news to users is dumb as shit. It was dumb as shit before today. That kind of direct route to core users is the stuff social media managers would usually commit felonies to get, and right now would commit major ones. Especially since people getting news second hand has risen dramatically in the past 5 years, good communication to the highly invested long term users is gold, tweets are grass.
* Idiot me got a bad sunburn on my scalp about a week ago and both shampooing and not-shampooing is irritating it and lotion just dries weird on my hair and also gets irritating. I am doing my best to care for it but I may legit shave my head again just to be able to treat the bad spots.
