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Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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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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I can concur though. I have a rarely used account and I get Elon on top of the feed all the time. Even as mobile notifications. I don't click on them and scroll past, but they keep coming.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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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.

Then you are not in a country where it is blocked. (Or you VPN into one.)

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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That's true, but TBP has been going pretty strong for over 2 decades. It can be hard to totally shut something down, if people want it.

Sadly, the music selection has fallen off a cliff, and the rest is in a sharply downward spiral... in one sense this is because the music industry finally settled on a streaming model that most people are willing to rent, and it's also because the new generation has been brainwashed or trained out of storing their own files.

It's also because it's difficult to add your own magnet links.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#46

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.

It can't suck all that much if you're not willing to give it up.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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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.

I don't think .org is still official. Look for an orange isometric K

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#48
oh, that's great. i thought the project is dead.

how would you (EDIT: publicly) host such a nitter instance while avoiding the risk of legal consequences?

since old.reddit (EDIT: on mobile) is closed for visitors without an account it would be great if there was also a neddit project.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#49

oh, that's great. i thought the project is dead. how would you (EDIT: publicly) host such a nitter instance while avoiding the risk of legal consequences? since old.reddit (EDIT: on mobile) is closed for visitors without an account it would be great if there was also a neddit project.

Redlib exists - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

It has a few public instances - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

Seems to work decently well, I've seen it being linked to on HN.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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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.

Wdym "chasing the latest TPB"? Isn't 1337x and others better and offer a complete alternative? Twitter is different there's many stories that are only there.

> Isn't 1337x and others better and offer a complete alternative?

The best way is always private trackers. They're easy to get into, easy to keep (if you're a serious and honest person), malware free, high quality content, great community, etc.

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