Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
www.washingtonpost.com
The delayed websites include X’s online rivals Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack as well as Reuters and the New York Times, all of which Musk previously has singled out for ridicule or attack.
  • crowsby@kbin.social
    1092·
    2 years ago

    I cannot believe that there are companies and non-wingnuts who are still actively using that site at this point. Like maybe at the start it was ha-ha funny watching him flail about with code printouts and unplugging random microservices leading to outages, but I feel like the moment he started actively funneling money to alt-right knuckleheads and human traffickers should have been enough of a kick in the pants for even folks heavily reliant on the platform to make their exit.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 years ago

      Thats the worst part about the real world, nobody gives a shit whose at their table as long as they get to eat.

      • emogu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Yep. It’s easy to complain or change your profile picture or share a link but if putting your money where your mouth is results in even the slightest discomfort or change to your comfort zone, that’s usually where people stop having a problem with the latest offense.

        As long as our lives keep moving unaffected we’ll abide anything 😞

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.comEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    Stop enabling his childish tactics by continuing to treat his platform as some kind of essential tool for communication. It simply isn’t.

    • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
      121·
      2 years ago

      Why? Because there are 100 or so moderately active instances with their own url? Or will you expect people who link to the fediverse to use new or obscure instances to indirectly link to things?

      • rab@lemmy.caEnglish
        25·
        2 years ago

        Yeah they’re not going to have a hard time at all haha

        Export a list of largest instances and put them in the firewall QOS, 5 minute job max

      • Tony Bark@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        A bit of both, actually. With such a diverse amount of instances, covering every possible type of social network, the best they’re ever going to throttle the flagships. xD

        • FoxAndKitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, except they federate. They keep lists about who they federate, defederate, and know of in machine readable format

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    These companies either need to rip the bandaid off and leave Twitter or, at least, start establishing themselves elsewhere and encourage their users to find the content wherever that place is.

  • Teon@kbin.social
    15·
    2 years ago

    Elon CornHusk is nothing but an idiot and a MASSIVE bully. Nothing he says or does has any value.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    On Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was first published, X began reversing the throttling on some of the sites, dropping the delay times back to zero. It was unknown if all the throttled websites had normal service restored.

    Who there didn’t see that coming? They thought nobody was gonna notice 5s delays on NYT links?

    That new CEO must be locked in a cage somewhere at this point because she is definitely not calling the shots on this, or “X”, or any of the other nonsense that’s still been occurring because only one billionaire egomaniac is capable of this absolute fucking trainwreck.