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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by mitxela »

defrost wrote: post #8
delichon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> quarantines for the Eternal September population Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic . About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.

FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account). So that's at least strictly before 2009.

The vote count is just the normal vote count, so I guess only the ordering is different?

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by mitxela »

dadoum wrote: post #6
Petersipoi wrote: post #3

Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years

They would become links with only a wrong domain, so I am not very worried about that personally.

It would be cool if libredirect could redirect a broken frontend instance to a working one.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by miningtcup »

swyx wrote: post #28

> How to obtain many sessions easily (public instances) The easiest way is to buy them here: https://hstockplus.com/accounts/twitter-x-accounts?sortBy=pr... > This way, you relay the account register process to the seller. These tokens are sold in the format username|password|2fa_code|cookies (including auth token, id and ct0), which makes it very easy and convenient for us to use. is this legit? this sounds extremel…

I know the guy and it does work, and it's not an ad. Accounts from that website are used on shitter.thepixora.com. The website is extremely sketchy though, he recommends that you don't give it more than a dollar at a time.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by bluecalm »

MostlyStable wrote: post #13

The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.

I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc. It's full of people who do meaningful work as well and you can see who they are. Dark mode, ability to easily copy images, link to posts, see posts of interesting people by going to their profile. On top of that the feed algorithm is open source and actually sane. What else would I want?

It's by far the best designed social media site out there. I know it's a low bar but still.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by defrost »

mitxela wrote: post #31
defrost wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account). So that's at least strictly before 2009.

The vote count is just the normal vote count, so I guess only the ordering is different?

It is, isn't it .. serves me right for breezing through that too quickly.

If there's something magical going on, the ordering would be the only real distinction possible.

Apparently the original (still the same?) dates back to the OG PG days:

Ask HN: who knows about this - "http://News.YCombinator.com/classic"? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1832884

  It's what the frontpage would look like if only the votes of users who joined in the first year counted. I made it to check if the site is declining. In practice it's usually just a slower-changing version of the frontpage.

  ~ pg

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by ronsor »

MostlyStable wrote: post #13

The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.

The UI/UX is the main thing. I technically have an X-Twitter account that I rarely use, but loading plain HTML with a bit of JS beats loading a whole SPA experience just to read a post.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

bluecalm wrote: post #34
MostlyStable wrote: post #13

The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.

I think it's great. My feed is people posting tech/AI news, scientific publications, videos of rockets and self-driving cars, things made with coding agents etc. It's full of people who do meaningful work as well and you can see who they are. Dark mode, ability to easily copy images, link to posts, see posts of interesting people by going to their profile. On top of that the feed algorithm is open source and actually…

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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by yoavm »

arjie wrote: post #15

Yeah, but most of these will fall. I used to use one or two of these to scrape my friends' posts because I stopped using Twitter and they'd inevitably all disappear in time. It's like chasing the latest TPB. In the end, I just logged in a headless browser and told an agent to fetch daily.

Did TPB ever change a domain? I've been using the .org domain listed on Wikipedia for as long as I can remember.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by silverwind »

MostlyStable wrote: post #13

The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.

Yeah, the UI is the real and only reason to use Nitter. It's a very similar situation with old reddit.
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