Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by tikhonj on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:54PM
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Were these apps made possible with VC money, or just made monopolizable? In a different world, I could see most of these areas spawning smaller companies—on a slower timeline, sure—if VC-backed companies couldn't use massive up-front capital to suck the air out of the room. We could certainly have app-based taxis and restaurant delivery without Uber or DoorDash; hardware and bandwidth have gotten cheap enough that we could have more Vimeos and Floatplanes instead of one big YouTube; Slashdots and Diggs and HNs without Reddit... etc.
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Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by faster_harder on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:49PM
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I'm hoping for a return of smaller communities and forums that were (more) common before facebook and reddit.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by NovaDudely on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:26PM
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Absolutely, it really was pouring gasoline on fire rather than the sole cause of the ideas. All the functions they provide would have turned up but on a smaller more sustainable scale, more like the older traditional companies of the past.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by jerrygenser on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:28PM
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They wouldn't have been able to support consumer scale without the up front capital. Otherwise they would need private betas and stuff but this would have not created the value of the same network effects and robust marketplaces.
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode
by likeclockwork on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:28AM
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A larger number of smaller firms each supporting the consumer scale they can sustainably and profitably support instead of selling below cost to capture the entire market then turning into hell when the bill comes due.