2y ago

Threads To Start Implementing Rate Limits Like Twitter As Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s “Optimistic” About Platform & Focused “On Growing Community”

deadline.com Threads To Start Implementing Rate Limits Like Twitter As Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s “Optimistic” About Platform & Focused “On Growing Community”

Threads is making a big change as it continues to grow exponentially as an alternative to Twitter. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took to the micro-blogging platform to announce that they would be imp…

Threads To Start Implementing Rate Limits Like Twitter As Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s “Optimistic” About Platform & Focused “On Growing Community”

3 comments

Such a click bait title.
Lemmy has ratelimits also its what sane people do, you ratelimit how fast people can submit posts to prevent bots from flooding your site with spam.
Read ratelimits is crazy town Post submitting ratelimits is sane spam policy
- Read rate limits are a thing too. It helps reduce scraping and keep your services online. But, I agree, the title is clickbait and there is a huge difference between limiting requests to something like 60 per minute and 500 tweets per day.

Rate-limiting things to human-speeds is fine.
The issue with Twitter rate-limits is that 600 tweets per day is doable in just 2 or 3 minutes of scrolling. Well within human limits.