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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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Post by jasonvorhe »

Hammershaft wrote: post #99
jasonvorhe wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a nostr user first and X is lurk only but I seldomly see anything by or about Musk and so does everyone else I speak to who actually uses it. I suspect this has become more of a meme by Mastodon/Bluesky users than anything real.

I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.

Weird, we must have very different definitions of "fascists".

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by embedding-shape »

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.

> It's like chasing the latest TPB.

What do you mean? TPB been online and at the exact same URL (give or take some days/weeks around raids) for like two decades, and still has the same URL today. Might not be the same group, but not sure what "chasing" you're referring to?

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by cindyllm »

embedding-shape wrote: post #110
pronik wrote: post #95

I might cut into my own flesh right now, but the funny thing about that XCancel shutdown is that while the website is down, the RSS feeds still work. Almost like they've just been required to shutdown the visible website and they complied with exactly that.

Isn't Twitter archived by Library of Congress or something similar? Can't remember the exact details, but maybe something (enforced by law even perhaps?) is depending on those feeds with punishment sufficient enough for Elon to actually listen. Or they don't actually realize those are still online, and there is some lone engineer trying their best to never raise any attention to it and we just made their day a lot wo…

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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by jasonvorhe »

someonebaggy wrote: post #21
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.

They're all perfect substitutes. When one is down you can use another. They can't stop us all. I just wish there was a way to automatically redirect to a working instance.

Found this Android app to work quite well. It just lacks working nitter instances right now but you can customize them:

https://github.com/circumspace/linkahest

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by embedding-shape »

phrotoma wrote: post #73
raffael_de wrote: post #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.

old.reddit still works anonymously for me. maybe an a/b test?

It's regional, in some countries they force logins, in others not. In some countries, r/all isn't available at all on mobile for example, you get redirected regardless of how you try to access it, but seemingly work in other countries.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by jasonvorhe »

klntsky wrote: post #42

Is there something like a balancer that redirects me to an instance that is not down?

There was a service I discovered that was set as a default in this app: https://github.com/circumspace/linkahest

Unfortunately it also shut down a few days before the nitter takedowns.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by atrus »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #98
OtomotO wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since a couple of weeks they force you to login to use old.reddit. My visits have dropped by about 95%

Use Redlib [1] or one of the other alternative Reddit frontends. [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

At that point though, it's like why. Reddit is, well, trash. It's barely worth visiting without an account, and if you're going to make me jump through hoops to visit, it's time to accept the message of "we don't want you here" and go somewhere else.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by coldpie »

TitaRusell wrote: post #104
Hammershaft wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach. Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.

The Dutch PM for some reason uses X (or his PR agents do). There is always a lot of impotent homophobic rage coming from the retweets. It is all very sad. But that's the US first amendment for you.

The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.
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