[bassman9000]

Not an engineering issue. Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost. You weren't aware of it because, as someone mentioned, it was subsidized before. Now you are aware. You're free to contribute by paying, if content is worth to you, or walk away. There are alternatives, but you can't escape the fact that moving all those bits is not free.

[sumeno]

Why is it suddenly so costly only after Elon took over considering Twitter was borderline profitable before he took over?

[bassman9000]

it was never profitable

[sumeno]

Wrong, they had net profits 15 out of 18 quarters from 2018-2022

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...

[arrrg]

Also, probably fairly considered the cost of doing business, but that includes a substantial fine Twitter had to pay. And Covid troubles.

Just good to know for context.

I’m really not sure where this narrative is coming from. It‘s always so weird to me. Why be so wrong?

[starlevel003]

> Compute, and in the end, energy, has a cost.

making sure that nobody can see ads by ratelimiting them too hard really helps with this, or so I'm told