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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 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

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."

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Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #248
snailmailman wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article uses "posting about race" in the headline, but makes it pretty clear in the content that he is pushing racist white supremacist ideas.

Which is kind of ironic. I remember realizing that they called it nitter for specifically horrible reasons after finding the online git web panel with the source code which was called "gitler" (hitler in russian for anyone who speaks it). Can't find it now but 4 or 5 years ago it's hard to forget. It even had some kind of nazi anime theme. 4-5 years ago is also about when Kanye West started to go insane, posted the r…

It's Twitter written in Nim. Ni- + -itter.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #157
atrus wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The reason to use it is that Reddit does provide the occasional answer to questions like "how to get a Samsung SCX 3400 to run on a Raspberry Pi" (etc.).

All those have been ingested by chatgpt, which ironically provides a better user experience.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

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

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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.

Their "open source algorithm" (Which is actually a random code dump that does not constitute the algorithm) contains enough evidence that Elon posts are massively boosted, though no smoking gun. It also classifies politics as democrat or republican and then acts to maintain echo chambers.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

MallocVoidstar wrote: post #268
robotnikman wrote: post #252

Thats the nice thing about alternate frontends like Nitter, if the main instance goes down you can just clone the repo and make your own very easily, or choose from one of the many alternate instances out there. I highly recommend the extension libredirect, which will redirect you to instances of your choice (or just stick with the defaults). It doesn't just work for Twitter/X, but also Reddit, Tiktok, Youtube, and m…

> you can just clone the repo and make your own very easily This is not the case for Nitter. It requires real X accounts to run, quite possibly hundreds or thousands for a major public instance. Creating X accounts currently requires phone number verification.

It is possible to get phone numbers. And not from shady sites - I mean you can just buy them, from the bodega.

But I agree, not easy.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #275
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 will inevitably all disappear in time." Years ago HN commenters were making the same comment when most Nitter instances were abandoned Meanwhile nitter.poast.org kept working for years Then xcancel.com appeared When there is no longer a method for an internet subscriber to read Twitter/X without the subscriber creating an account on Twitter/X (and "logging in"), then the subscriber can use a headless browser Bu…

> When there is no longer a method to read Twitter/X withoot logging in, then one can use a headless browser

There isn't one. Nitter logs in.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #154
ahoka wrote: post #136

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It's distributing malware, do not use any of the "TPB" sites.

It's distributing everything, including things that aren't available any other way, and if you want the good you have to pluck it out of the bad. Living without the good just to avoid that is maybe one philosophy of life, but certainly not the only valid one.

There's just no reason to ever use them when other sites are better.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

conradfr wrote: post #79
noduerme wrote: post #23

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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.

Soulseek is working fine. But to be honest I never found TPB (or rarbg etc.) really useful for music.

Soulseek is centralised, and censors searches in compliance with legal requests. If you connect to someone who has censored content, the central server can't stop you grabbing it, but you have to find them another way.

Re: Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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Post by apefulsin »

jamwil wrote: post #172
hedora wrote: post #153

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Streaming is getting worse fast. I basically just pay for curation, and AI slop is creating cracks in that model. Some of the musicians I like are getting crushed by sybil style attacks, where there are 10 new albums in their artist page, but only one is theirs. Fortunately, sending a screenshot to Claude tells me what to push in a minute or so, but, unfortunately, I can’t just hand it an API endpoint and have it scr…

I am not sure what streaming service you are using but it sounds awful. I have not encountered anything like what you describe on Apple Music.

Probably Spotify
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