RT @year_progress: Twitter was a fun place partly because people could make small, weird programs for others' enjoyment. There's @big_ben_clock, @portmanteau_bot, @AutoCharts, and a million others. Most of us did this work without any thought of compensation because we're not dickfaced twatwaffles. [t]2023-02-05 21:56:19
RT @year_progress: There's been a few arsebaskets over the years who wanted to buy @year_progress. I said no because then my little hobby project would inevitably devolve into pushing an NFT scam or some other bullshit. I don't need that. [t]2023-02-05 21:56:28
RT @year_progress: Each of us Twitter bot makers already pay for the servers that send these tweets. That's fine. But now some clownstick at Twitter decides they also want money for the priviledge of receiving these tweets.
RT @year_progress: This bot posts about 8 tweets a month. Each of those tweets is a string of up to 18-19 characters. Even with all the required ceremony, this bot isn't costing Twitter more than a few kilobytes a month.
So this is NOT Twitter trying to get compensated for their server upkeep. [t]2023-02-05 21:56:50