Gregory's ServerTwitter just announced free access to the Twitter API will end on February 9, with unannounced pricing or usage details, effectively killing every free fun and useful thing ever built with it: bots, games, mashups, visualizations, research projects, autoposters, autoblockers, deleters, and so much more. https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1621026986784337922
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 @andybaio yeah, that’s a good point. Thank you for making it. I’ve visited it most days that it’s been live. I really enjoyed it. @marcprecipice @andybaio FWIW I think accounts like this are in line with Mastodon thinking, I’d just host it on a bot server. @andybaio @marcprecipice but who says the culture of Mastodon is static? This place is going to become whatever people want it to be. Now is the time to bring over the good stuff that's being jettisoned from Twitter.  @andybaio I admittedly stopped checking belong.io years ago (mostly because my own feed was already providing me with an excess of content), but I have nevertheless discovered so many interesting things on Belong through the years I used it, it's been a invaluable tool!  @andybaio i discovered a lot of cool things through that so thanks for running it all this time @andybaio sorry to hear that, it must sting. Wish people could be better people, but alas billionaires don’t count among them. They turn into a monstrous swamp thing always looking to squeeze *more* than they or anyone else will ever need out of anything. Build in the fediverse, please. It’s the future!! @andybaio one of my favorite sites, one I visited daily since its inception. Thank you for the brilliance! 🙏 |
I guess that means the end of my own Belong.io link aggregator, which I’ve run for nearly ten years. https://belong.io/