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Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#11
This is disappointing because often times people link to threads on Twitter but if you’re lucky enough to not get a login wall, the full thread wont be visible without logging in. (Which I’m not going to do)

I really wish people would just stop linking me to twitter (or better yet, stop using it altogether).

Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#12
post #8

This is just an instance shutting down, not all of the Nitter instances. Sort of a deceptive title.

Except half of the instances are rate limited, so unless you know the username or tweet you are looking for, good luck searching for anything.

Oh, does it mostly affect searching?

99% of the time I touch twitter, it's to go to a specific tweet or timeline.

Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except half of the instances are rate limited, so unless you know the username or tweet you are looking for, good luck searching for anything.

Oh, does it mostly affect searching? 99% of the time I touch twitter, it's to go to a specific tweet or timeline.

I don't know for sure, I've been watching a couple accounts that have been dormant for a while, but several instances have broken search, so maybe the account pages are cached.

Edit: I just checked an instance and it seems to have tweets from the past minute or two, but if the backend accounts that drive them are getting banned, it's probably gonna tank in the upcoming weeks.

Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#16
If all Nitter instances get shut down, that's another reason for people to stop putting information into the Twitter/X walled-garden.

Nitter has had the effect of a pressure release valve, for the people who object most to Twitter/X.

Without the Nitter compromise, more people will stop linking to Twitter/X threads, indulging people who still post there, etc.

Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#17
post #11

This is disappointing because often times people link to threads on Twitter but if you’re lucky enough to not get a login wall, the full thread wont be visible without logging in. (Which I’m not going to do) I really wish people would just stop linking me to twitter (or better yet, stop using it altogether).

If we're lucky this will discourage HNers from linking to Twitter at all.

Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#18
Are there any services that make daily twitter digests out of lists that doesn't cost arm and leg in terms of API access? I've been running a pretty hacky google sheet script to parse nitter list rss on supported instances, but guess that's going to be DOA in the coming days.

Re: "If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"

#20
post #11

This is disappointing because often times people link to threads on Twitter but if you’re lucky enough to not get a login wall, the full thread wont be visible without logging in. (Which I’m not going to do) I really wish people would just stop linking me to twitter (or better yet, stop using it altogether).

It's a terrible site though and calls to disallow submissions from there (in comments here) were common going back well before Musk took over, so the Twitter dislike originated independently of anyone's views about him.
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