Just a reminder, Mastodon had rate limits long before #twitter... lets not get too cocky on this one.

@freemo Rate limits are nothing new per se this is true, especially when it comes to load balancer technology, but I can't help but wonder if we are talking of vastly different orders of magnitude by way of scale?
A limit of reading 300 tweets in a day compared against say calling Mastodon's Api endpoints/methods 300 times in 5 minutes. This seems almost incomparable?
Typically rate limits tend to be set in place for the overall integrity of a service, but the recent announcements by Twitter seem insane and might point the finger at some recent changes made to their underlying infrastructure which simply can no longer cope (however "temporary" a measure). I heard that AI tech can be good at designing RISC chips in under 5 hours - who knows maybe AI could be used (maybe has been used) to fix/break certain issues.

@silvercloudfox

Seems you have outdated figured, they have doubled this since it was first brought online and continue to tweak.

I can't imagine most people are responding to more than 600 tweets a day, or looking at them. But I'm sure part of it is to encourage buying a verified account which gets 10K the tweet views. That seems like the most valid complaint I can think of about the whole mess.

@freemo @silvercloudfox Keep in mind that 600 tweets can be easily reached if you're reading one big thread. A comment is also a tweet. So if you read a thread with like 1000 comments, and mostly just scroll past, you've already exceeded the limit.

@freemo @silvercloudfox
I checked it out. I've scrolled through 3 big threads (About 300+ comments each). I'm now not seeing any new comments anymore.

Imagine the Fediverse on drama-day. You scroll through a few big threads, and then you hit a limit so you can't use Mastodon anymore for the rest of the day. ;)

That'd cause more drama and result in more drama-days. But for Twitter it is business as usual. An oh yeah, Elon has now increased those limits 2 times already. :P

@trinsec @freemo @silvercloudfox I also wonder what is the rationale behind selecting that particular number: 300, 600, or whatever.

Is it a data driven selection or just random?

In any case addresing it as "extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation" seemed a bit lame too.