Uggh. I only use twitter to follow critical (life-and-death) emergency broadcasts from our local fire department.
Is there a viable alternative for them to use now that twitter is going to block most of our county’s residents?
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#152This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
It's extremely rough around the edges but getting into fediverse content (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) has been extremely rewarding to me. It's like twitter and reddit but 15 years ago (and by that I mostly mean it's janky and full of bugs. Just like the web was 15 years ago!)
I tried it but I just can't get into the flow of things, it doesn't feel like a lot happens during the day, but maybe i'm on the wrong server? I just want to expel my bowels and doom scroll bad funny memes
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#153And now imagine a citizen wants to quickly check news/updates/whatever from a government agency or a city council which doesn't have a fediverse account
Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place? At the very least if these sites are being used for official communication that might be critical to peoples safety some sort of privileged status or ToS should be negotiated. Can you imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government agency because he had a fit while high at 3 am? Also: https://xkcd.com/743/
> Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place?
It's the responsibility of the government to make information available where the citizens are. As the citizens moved from radio and TV to social media, the government followed.
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#154This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
The internet is fine. The highly centralized businesses that built themselves on the technology are meeting their inevitable end.
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#155A fork of nitter by PrivacyDevel [0] should still work as it adds the option of using user account tokens to bypass content restricted tweets. [0] https://github.com/PrivacyDevel/nitter
What this needs is some way to randomly select tokens from a (self-hosted) token dispenser. The dispenser can be fed fresh tokens through token donation from all those who claimed to have left and/or are planning to leave Twitter, that should provide enough tokens for the forthcoming decade.
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#156I can't even access the page to reach a login screen. I get a redirect error.
Same, but I've had this issue on desktop (Chromium and Firefox) for weeks now. I think it's some misapplied filtering rule or something, since before this recent account change I could still see Twitter on my mobile browser, without redirects.
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#157Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
I wonder if he considers Nitter "data pillaging"
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#158I will miss some of the Ukraine news as twitter was good for that, but that's about it for me at this point.
Most of the news, images, and video originates from Telegram. Even if you don't want an account you can view channels without logging in... For example: https://t.me/s/pilotblog , but there are usually t.me watermarks on videos so you can find plenty of others.
As someone who’s been consuming a lot on Twitter and Reddit, can you recommend a decent set of telegram channels that I could follow to stay up to date?
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#159Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
Haven’t we been predicting twitter’s degradation for some time? When Musk removed half of his employees many of us realised systems would remain running for some time, but at a certain point they would start degrading without intervention.
The more Musk makes changes, the faster it degrades.
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#160Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at https://twitter.com/HNStatus >. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.
>if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why
That's probably close to 99% of HN users