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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by efdee »

eudamoniac wrote: post #164
neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

This all already happened, it's called bluesky, and the "decent" (people who agree with you on politics) people had their exodus already

BlueSky is so much more toxic than Twitter/X ever was. And I say that as a left-leaning centrist.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by randunel »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #226
neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

I don't think it's good to make myself less informed. I have no intention of chatting on Twitter casually or browsing it for fun, but if a major announcement is posted only on Twitter—and I don't know why people keep doing that, but they do—I want to read the original source.

Name and shame them.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#233

Post by apefulsin »

wolvoleo wrote: post #163
neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

> Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i can find a way to take it from them anyway" I agree with that though. It's better to circumvent than to submit and do what you're told. The same way piracy keeps streaming services somewhat honest, I'm s…

We can test this. Piracy used to exist and streaming services were cheap and good. Then piracy didn't exist because of that, and streaming services got expensive and worse. Now piracy exists again.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#234

Post by apefulsin »

rpdillon wrote: post #191
wolvoleo wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i can find a way to take it from them anyway" I agree with that though. It's better to circumvent than to submit and do what you're told. The same way piracy keeps streaming services somewhat honest, I'm s…

> I agree with that though. It's better to circumvent than to submit and do what you're told. Not always. Sometimes the rules are stupid, and by simply obeying them, their stupidity becomes apparent. The governments that are trying to force Facebook and Google to pay to link to their news stories are a great example. The governments foolishly assumed that the media companies would comply by paying, but instead they c…

They're not paying to link. They're paying to summarise, because people read the summary and don't go to the news site.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by lrvick »

neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

I agree with everything you said and abandoned my Twitter account and everything on it years ago for these reasons.

Everything, except for your usage of anarchism to imply chaos or disorder, which is a common misunderstanding. Anarchism, particularly the flavor I subscribe to which is Social Anarchism, is a pursuit of social order, freedom, and prosperity without centralized authorities like Musk.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#236

Post by apefulsin »

asnf-qwpz wrote: post #196
neilv wrote: post #148

A non -technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post". Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there. Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if…

Twitter is the country club for right and left wing elites. They don't care about viewership, they want to influence each other and chat. They have thousands of other ways to influence the masses by owning media, other discussion platforms, owning institutions and foundation members and running PR campaigns. It is better if their actions on Twitter are observed, documented and archived rather than letting them have c…

Are there any left wing elites?

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by twobitshifter »

efdee wrote: post #231
eudamoniac wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This all already happened, it's called bluesky, and the "decent" (people who agree with you on politics) people had their exodus already

BlueSky is so much more toxic than Twitter/X ever was. And I say that as a left-leaning centrist.

Eh, I think you may have just been in a tighter echo chamber on twitter. If you are on bluesky the discover tab is considered a mess and may provide you with things that you aren’t interested in.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

#239

Post by apefulsin »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #125
silverwind wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The only reason to use nitter is that for whatever reason twitter allows it access to its api. The UI is terrible and completely irrelevant.

The reason is that every copy of Nitter has a list of account tokens to log in with, and pretends to be a human using those accounts.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by cindyllm »

apefulsin wrote: post #236
asnf-qwpz wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is the country club for right and left wing elites. They don't care about viewership, they want to influence each other and chat. They have thousands of other ways to influence the masses by owning media, other discussion platforms, owning institutions and foundation members and running PR campaigns. It is better if their actions on Twitter are observed, documented and archived rather than letting them have c…

Are there any left wing elites?

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