They seem to be one of those sites that intentionally makes their Web version suck, to push you to the app. The behavior predates Musk, even, and during the first few months of his ownership this markedly improved (I assume as a side effect of ripping a bunch of stuff out) before getting even worse.
These kinds of error messages are often a dead giveaway that a company (or product) doesn't know what it's doing. How can you know something went wrong, but not actually say what went wrong in the error message? Either 1. You don't have sufficient logging and/or error handling to know what specifically went wrong, or 2. You do know specifically what went wrong but don't know how to fix it or what to tell the user to do to fix it, or 3. You know what went wrong but are being deliberately vague with the user. None of the above are a really good look.
It's really not justifiable to have in-actionable error messages for things like fraud prevention. You don't necessarily need to say exactly why it was triggered or even that it was fraud detection, but at least give me steps to get my issue resolved. If I need to contact support, say so. If I'm locked out for 10 minutes, tell me so I don't waste my time. If I need to change settings, tell me what to do.
Getting told to "try again later" every day you try to send money through a payment app is not a useful error. (I'm not entirely sure if it's fraud protection, but I also have no idea why I couldn't send money because it won't give me any resolution steps).
People familiar with fraud protection or security may assume that the error message is related to fraud protection or security, but actual users are just going to be frustrated.
Was he the guy who made X block Firefox unless you turn off the tracking protection? I will say that change has made it much easier to stop using the site.
I follow some accounts like Chip Huyen, Andrej Karpathy and some cat pic accounts etc..., and a couple of close friends are almost exclusively active on Twitter.
Also ocassional Marvel news is nice to check out in a while...
But its true that toxic crap does pop up on my feed, esp. before the Presidential election, I felt it had gone haywire so I just block some triggering words though even that doesn't work at times..
And by bot, what I meant was when I did try to tweet, way too many times it says to "This action seems automated. Please try again later" or "You have reached your daily limit for this action... Please try again later" or Add your phone number to proceed (though I have done this ages ago) ... not been literally labelled as a bot.
Maybe it is stockholm syndrome... social media does seem like a way to get my fix (cut out Instagram cause of doomscrolling on an ex's profile, Reddit cause its pretty toxic too but its still good place to get some esoteric knowledge, HN has been very good, Facebook is useless unless I try to sell something... speaking of which if anyone is open to buying a 21 speed cycle in Bangalore, please DM)
