"While Twitter had earlier told TechCrunch that it would be “winding down” Smyte’s business with existing clients, what that apparently meant was that it was going to announce the acquisition, then effectively shut off the lights over at Smyte and leave everyone in the lurch."
Just to reiterate because it's not obvious from the excerpt, Smyte is some kind of anti-harrassment API that a lot of large platforms (like npm and zendesk) were using. Twitter acquired it as a solution to their own harrassment problem and immediately shut everyone's access off, even though many companies had multi-year contracts with them! 😂
Not only does Twitter have harrassment issues on its own platform, now they're exporting these issues to other platforms too!
How did nobody on their board see this PR disaster coming. The incompetence keeps surprising me.
@Gargron No hay gente de España aquí?
@Gargron No sabes español?
@Montse_blanca hola! Somos pocos, pero estamos por aquí. Puede que encuentres otra instancia de mastodon pensada para hispanohablantes, esta es mayoritariamente en inglés :)
@Ondo Ah, hay otro en español?.
@Montse_blanca @Gargron Sí, hay gente española por aquí, aunque aparte de mí no sé quién. Catalanes hay muchos más lol.
@espectalll @Gargron Mientras sean de habla española.
@Montse_blanca @Gargron Sí, hay, pero independentistas todos, lo siento.
Sólo se me ocurren otros dos españoles pensándomelo mejor y son republicanos y comunistas, si no me equivoco. Si buscas estar por aquí, tendrás que traerte a gente, lo siento.
@Montse_blanca Hay españolhablantes (y catalanhablantes) en:
https://mastodont.cat/
https://mastodon.uy/
Pero no sé si gente de España esta aquí.
@Montse_blanca Sorry I don't speak Spanish!