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This is the most impressive project in Nim I’ve seen yet. Rewriting any major front-end, complete with working authentication and handling idiosyncrasies of the private API is a herculean task. For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does, effectively. Kudos to the author for accomplishing this feat!
Warning: long somewhat related story that is basically humblebragging, but the summary is that bypassing Twitter ratelimits is not very hard. I didn't feel like playing around with Twitter's annoying certificate pinning so I just uploaded the Twitter APK to Corellium, turned on what they call the "network monitor", opened the Twitter app since it lets you use Twitter without signing in. I clicked around, searched and…
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> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.
Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.
I had my Privacy Redirect plugin redirect Twitter to 0.0.0.0 instead of nitter.lacontrevoie.fr after it got killed.
Can someone do Fritter next please so I have a decent android Twitter client?
Anyone remember threads? Whatever happened to that app?
Funny how the effect of the rate limit has barely affected bots and scrapers at all but severely damaged the userbase of the site.
tinfoil hat time: what if that was the point all along? twitter was a vital space for organizing protests - think arab spring, occupy wall street. one of the richest guys in the world (who's also very anti-union, btw!) buys it up in a time where inequality is getting worse and worse and social fabrics are starting to tear and makes it unusable. no more space for organizing. one fewer threat to capital.
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And the flagship instance of Nitter is unusable more often than not - the fact that it's working today is likely an artifact of people having given up given the week long total outage.
Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.
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> For context, Twitter would have a team of two dozen or more supporting what this does Of course, because if Nitter goes down nobody bats an eye.
Nobody? If Nitter goes down Twitter might as well not even exist to me.
I just marked them all as read and moved on. I guess this Nitter outage may be the thing that finally pushes me to find the people I follow on other platforms.
Funny how the effect of the rate limit has barely affected bots and scrapers at all but severely damaged the userbase of the site.
tinfoil hat time: what if that was the point all along? twitter was a vital space for organizing protests - think arab spring, occupy wall street. one of the richest guys in the world (who's also very anti-union, btw!) buys it up in a time where inequality is getting worse and worse and social fabrics are starting to tear and makes it unusable. no more space for organizing. one fewer threat to capital.
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tinfoil hat time: what if that was the point all along? twitter was a vital space for organizing protests - think arab spring, occupy wall street. one of the richest guys in the world (who's also very anti-union, btw!) buys it up in a time where inequality is getting worse and worse and social fabrics are starting to tear and makes it unusable. no more space for organizing. one fewer threat to capital.
He owns the site. If this is truly his intention then all he has to do is turn off the main switch. There's really no reason to give him the benefit of doubt and twist the narrative into "Musk is a genius and everything is going according to plan". The simpler theory is likely to be the correct one – he has never run a social network before and has no idea how to stop bleeding users and cash so is desperately throwin…