{"id":597991,"date":"2023-01-16T05:50:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/the-shit-show\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T05:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:28","slug":"the-shit-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/16\/the-shit-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shit Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, it happened.<\/p>\n

We knew it was coming.<\/p>\n

A prick pulled the plug<\/a>. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.<\/p>\n

My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but she left with love and dignity. That makes all the difference when it comes to coping with loss.<\/p>\n

Twitterrific is something that we\u2019ve all<\/a> poured our love into for the past 16 years<\/a>. I\u2019m not usually one to toot my own horn, but we literally crafted the early experience<\/a> on the service. We often hear that folks joined up because of our app. Our work was definitive and groundbreaking<\/a>. We loved this app like I loved my mom.<\/p>\n

(Note today\u2019s date and the one on our announcement<\/a> \u2013 the fuckwads missed our 16th anniversary by a couple of days! King Shithead probably thought Friday the 13th was lol. I\u2019d love some proof that the API went down at 04:20 in UTC +1.)<\/p>\n

Like my mom, the API has been declining for awhile. Endpoints were removed, new features were unavailable to third parties, and rate limiting restricted what we could do. And like my mom, we struggled on and did the best we could, trying to stay upbeat about it all.<\/p>\n

What bothers me about Twitterrific\u2019s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what\u2019s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it\u2019s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.<\/p>\n

But I guess that\u2019s what you should expect from a shitty person.<\/p>\n

Personally, I\u2019m done<\/a>. And with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

First, arrogant bastards love seeing their names on tweets and other media. I want to starve him of the things that money can\u2019t buy: respect and attention. Do the same by simply ignoring him and his kingdom.<\/p>\n

Secondly, for the past several months I\u2019ve been thinking about where we go from here. When you see decline, you plan for a demise. It was the last thing mom taught me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been active on Mastodon<\/a> since the billionaire bozo took over. And it makes me think.<\/p>\n

One thing I\u2019ve noticed is that everyone is going to great lengths to make something that replaces the clients we\u2019ve known for years. That\u2019s an excellent goal that eases a transition in the short-term, but ignores how a new open standard<\/a> (ActivityPub) can be leveraged in new and different ways.<\/p>\n

Federation exposes a lot of different data sources that you\u2019d want to follow. Not all of these sources will be Mastodon<\/a> instances: you may want to stay up-to-date with someone\u2019s Micro.blog<\/a>, or maybe another person\u2019s Tumblr<\/a>, or someone else\u2019s photo feed<\/a>. There are many apps<\/a> and servers<\/a> for you to choose from.<\/p>\n

It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to an endpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One thing I remember from these early days: no one had any idea what they were doing. It was all new and things like @screen_name, \u00a0#hashtags, or RT hadn\u2019t been invented yet.\u00a0Heck, we didn\u2019t even call them \u201ctweets\u201d<\/a> or use a bird icon<\/a> at first!\u00a0The best ideas came from people using the service: all of the things mentioned above grew organically from a need.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where I want to be in the future. Exploring unknown territory that empowers others and adapts to the needs of a community.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no sense in clinging to the personal whims of a clown leading a shit show. Especially when his circus will end up being a $44 billion version of MySpace.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}