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Eugen Rochko

I would prefer it if Elon Musk was destroying his site during the work week. This isn't the first time.

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Nikov :comunismo: 🇵🇸

@MattTheQuick @Gargron no no, he is playing the actor of "being concerned about big companies" but did accepted a private confidential meeting with Meta some days ago, therefore contributing to the first steps of selling the fediverse to a big corp like Meta. Eugen is being an opportunistic player and this is not good.

Kite

@Gargron are you still working with the meta folks?

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@Gargron He's got no consideration for Gargrons whatsoever

Jesús Pavón Abián

@Gargron Get rid of the nonsense about people signing up to Mastodon.social by default. Change it to a random instance of the Fediverse. You'll suffer less.

Macer

@jpavonabian @Gargron i have to agree with this. it should be even further dumbed down so that users feel like they're choosing a 'name that suits you' with a random list of instances with different domain names. that way they feel like they're tailoring it to themselves.

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@jpavonabian @Gargron Or at least random between instances that meet appropriate guidelines. What's the point of federation of 97% of users are on 5 instances?

Didzis 🇱🇻🇺🇦

@Gargron lack of respect and business ethics… But is it unexpected? Thank you for all the hard work!

Femme Malheureuse

@Gargron Did the last time it happened like this also occur with the end of the month when bills came due or contracts ended? LOL

Rambo III

@Gargron Elon treibt unnötigen Wahnsinn. Noch einer aus alternativen Realität. Face-palm

Eric de Redelijkheid :fedi:

@Gargron How else can he make his minions work overtime during the weekend?

Boo Ramsey 🧛🏻‍♂️🧟‍♂️👻🎃

@Gargron Sounds like this could be a purposeful strategy on his part to take down Fediverse servers.

Michael Stanclift

@ramsey @Gargron that would require a level of 2D chess he’s incapable of playing.

Sander van Kasteel

@vmstan @ramsey @Gargron Not to mention the potential leavers of Twitters.

Even if 1% perminantly left, it's 1% less people on Twitter and less eyeballs on ads.

Sören

@vmstan @ramsey @Gargron yeah. Sequence of events seems to be

1) those evil third-party clients shall die! (Have you tried negotiating with them?)
2) drat! Now we have more scrapers! (Who could have predicted that?)
3) let’s rate-limit everyone, and limit guests to zero? (Have you adapted the front-end to reduce requests, or does it keep trying?)
4) oh no, we’re now dDoSing ourselves! (So that’s a no.)

I don’t think there’s a mastermind at work here. Just someone who’s reacting, not strategic.

@vmstan @ramsey @Gargron yeah. Sequence of events seems to be

1) those evil third-party clients shall die! (Have you tried negotiating with them?)
2) drat! Now we have more scrapers! (Who could have predicted that?)
3) let’s rate-limit everyone, and limit guests to zero? (Have you adapted the front-end to reduce requests, or does it keep trying?)
4) oh no, we’re now dDoSing ourselves! (So that’s a no.)

Jason Kwok

@Gargron Now the load time of multiple Mastodon instances had become slower, thanks Elon!

Macer

@JasonHK @Gargron that must be the AI scraping mastodon since twitter is offline.

ObliCold

@Gargron He wanted to ruin your week-end haha

CyberMat75

@Gargron I blame the Government for not regulating him to force him to do stupid stuff during the work week.

Nostalgia Ninja

@Gargron ah, personally this feels like it's the same old. This on month end weekend when I'm supposed to relax.

Last month it was false bans. This month it's rate limiting. We're so tired.

I know I'm not the most loyal person to Mastodon, but I appreciate the groundwork you've put in for us here.

Igor Ferreira

@Gargron Twitter is just a “fun” side project for him, a toy to play with. He never looks at it during the work week.

soundandfury

@Gargron A bit of me wishes he'd either sell the bird site or kill it off entirely (by accident or design.)

Arathar

@Gargron I have sympathy for the weekend workers that must repair the garbage changes. Maybe on Saturday and Sunday, Twitter is run in Beta mode? A change doesn’t count unless it makes it until Monday morning.

DohNut

@Gargron I saw speculation that it may be his service providers throttling his service level back, since Elmo hasn't been paying them for some time. This level of service will lead to advertisers suing for not getting the eyeball count they paid for.

CJ the Awkward Lefty

@Gargron yeah, now what am I supposed to do while I'm procrastinating going grocery shopping?

Roelant

@Gargron I think it's a favour to all those volunteer instance admins who have a day job and only have time for this kind of shenanigans in the evening or weekend. 😉

★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

@Gargron Mark Zuckerberg is about to give destroying the Fediverse his best shot in a couple of weeks with Project 92, too! Hope you're prepared to block all Meta instances the moment it goes live. 🙏

Tim W (union.place admin)

@Gargron we admins who do this for passion and not pay prefer it this way (well, I do, anyway, can't speak for everyone)

Kate Birrell

@Gargron It’s an entire week since Prigozhin shot himself in the foot - wonder what’ll happen next Saturday..

Macer

@Gargron I don’t know why everybody keeps giving Elon a hard time. He has done wonders for decentralized social networks and kicked down doors for the rest to follow suit. Keep up the good work! 😂

Rev. GothAlice

@elite @Gargron Really; who do I need to talk to to join the committee sending him cake? For his wonderful contribution to user adoption here?

Let him eat 🍰!

mkj

@alice I think that's a federated, distributed effort. No committee or coordination needed!

Rev. GothAlice

@Gargron Good timing for Canada Day and July 4th, though. Given the status page says "All Systems Operational", this may be an intended new norm?

John Bergquist 🍥

@Gargron i would prefer if he destroys the site in one go instead of this painfully long death.

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EarthMomma

@Gargron

I grew up in the Saturday morning cartoon era and I cant help imagining the ...beep beep

Wile E Coyote (played by Elon Musk) in an animated  picture showing coyote falling backward off a long cliff in a narrow canyon with a stream below.
Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥

@Gargron We all know how dear labour laws and rights are to his heart, just kindly ask him.

abracadabra holmes

@Gargron weekends are for *Twitter misinformation*

It's been like this a few months now

Tobias Merkendorf

@Gargron he has no respect for the working man anyhow...

DJGummikuh

@Gargron these stats that occasionally fly around here, are they publicly accessible somewhere?

Fubaroque

@Gargron It's all those hardcore developers. They always do their testing in production... #andtheygetboredduringweekends

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@Gargron ~ Stupidity at its finest - anyone can have a bad day, but sometimes stupidity rises to the heights.

Torsten :verified: :verified:

@Gargron I would agree to a fight between #Zuckerberg and #Musk. Only two rules:
1. Musk is tied
2. Zuckerberg punches Musk in the face for 30 min

#Fightclub #Twitterdown #Twitter

TankFox

@tor @Gargron dude why you trying to beat up Zuckerberg like that?

Seirdy

@Gargron “If you’re struggling with the load, maybe you should close sign-ups.” I said, knowing that would never happen.

AStephen256

@Gargron the guy is greedy & he's greedy is destroying the app. I'm happy to be here now 🤝

Purd

@Gargron yea that's why Im here because reddit and twitter are being shit

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@Gargron ~ Stupidity at its best. This guy do more damage before 9am than most people do all day… and he’s mankind’s last hope 😂😂

Hendrik Fleming

@Gargron he totally broke it this time… poor idiot

Shady

@Gargron He can't manage a website, he doesn't design his own cars, he knows nothing about rocket science. Yet he is billion times richer than me

Not fair

ShellSea

@Gargron jajaja I won't go back. Do you bluesky?

57thOverlanders

@Gargron it's an end of the month/quarter thing. He owed payments to Google and Amazon for server hosting services and didn't make the payments.

Wade Wainio

@Gargron Were there reports of Tesla's employees working 7 days a week, and sycophants saying Elon's a genius for deliberately overworking his staff?

Malfordcross

@Gargron looking for Ukrainian sites to follow over here please.

Sergio

@Gargron he is deranged every day if the week. He is an equal day destroyer type of guy.

Stefanja

@Gargron Disruption is feature not a glitch.

Desert Fish :nd:⚧

@gargron would be less busy if you wouldn’t have made your instance the default on the app.

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@Gargron , #ElonMusk ,Has No Social Life , & Hence Does Things Like This & More Important Than His Ex Wife & Kids Too :( 😞

unlink2

@Gargron I legit don't even understand the business decision behind this. Either way I'm glad mastodon is around.

Donkey Donk

@Gargron i think the increased traffic mastadon is getting is slowing it down as well

Tröglödÿt

@Gargron

you're like the only instance admin doing it as a dayjob

to the rest weekends is the time where it doesn't compete with paying the rent and having food

8k60pTravel

@Gargron at least we have a ground floor seat to the next big thing

AT-AT Assault :verifiedtrans:

@Gargron

It's great actually. Forced panic mandatory weekend overtime crunch will cause more engineers to quit twitter. The more that twatter hemorrhages employees, the faster it will crash and burn.

FayeS

@Gargron at the weekend is just shitty

SurgicalSlinky

@Gargron Musk is shit and is tanking Twitter, but seeing that you've been having meetings with a company as scummy and, arguably, worse than Twitter makes me feel like coming to this site was a mistake as well...

NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️

@Gargron

This is what all half dozen programmers working for Twitter are saying.

Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene

@Gargron I can't access the discord channel, but let me know if you need a hand.

Dwalin_7

@Gargron favourite hypothesis: on weekends he's on his own and has no crew to prevent him from causing damage

Diamond Joy (Dogs for Harris!)

@Gargron Note: DESTRUCTION. What Meta will do here. Don't sell us out!

Brinin’ Rotkel

@Gargron okay, but imagine being an on-call engineer at Twitter this weekend.

Kesmg24

@Gargron the timing, as usual, is convenient for those looking to suppress voices

Philip Mallegol-Hansen

@Gargron @mjf_pro The few engineers left at Twitter probably feel the same way.

H

@Gargron no cuz now we have the weekend to explore new apps

AngrySeed

@Gargron
Not the last Indeed
We believe, in France, that this black out has a serious involvement in a social anger growing un France. What IS French révolution happend again?😏

Ryan

@Gargron it does suck having it happen on a weekend 🤣 I was in the middle of watching prospect drafts for NHL hockey and poof! Gone. So now I'm here on Mastodon. Someone needs to end Twitter once and for all.

Mostly Naked

@Gargron Knowing him, he probably gave the orders to his staff from his jet somewhere. He doesn't get to see the carnage first hand.

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