Twitter buys Smyte, a trust and safety SaaS that other sites was using, and shuts it down for everyone else immediately. As in, only half an hours notice.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
So much for contracts, huh? You can't trust any of these companies to exist when you need them!
@KitRedgrave Can't help wondering if they just figured "what if instead of getting rid of abuse on our platform, we could make everyone else's just as bad?"
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It's like they took Microsoft's old embrace extend extinguish model. Even MS doesn't seem to be using that model these days.
The really infuriating part is that Nothing Will Change:tm:. They only bought Smyte for PR purposes, not so that they'd actually *do* anything.
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> In npm’s case, it even led to a production outage.
😂 😂 😂
@KitRedgrave yap. always "run your own node, in a distributed system". like the internet used to be (email, ftp, etc...), and can be (tor, Diaspora, mastodon, peertube,...)
@KitRedgrave you can trust kibi to exist always and forever
@KitRedgrave those people need to group together and bring a willful breach of contact suit
@KitRedgrave There's a small irony to trusting a company named "Smite" with a Y.
But yeah, that's a really crappy thing for Twitter to do.