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

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Post by dgacmu »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #94
superhumanuser wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this reply getting downvoted?

I'm guessing 1) HN readers don't like Elon Musk (I don't like him either) so they don't like Twitter 2) I implied HN readers are doing something wrong (as any other human being, they don't like being told that) 3) I (slightly) insulted the intelligence of HN readers by saying they didn't know how to use Twitter and they really don't like that I've just gotten downvotes and no one's responded with any actual rebuttals…

Nah, you're probably wrong about HN users not knowing how to use Twitter. You're assuming the worst - perhaps assume that people have good reasons for avoiding it and ask what those might be?

I have about 5k followers on Twitter and have posted roughly 10k tweets over the last 16 years of having an account there. I'm pretty familiar with how to use it. I've moved to mastodon - the part of Twitter I used to value is a dumpster fire, many of my colleagues have moved, and I don't want to contribute to monetizing hateful garbage. And that includes preferring not to log in, which means threads don't show up any more. So it was nitter or nothing.

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

#102

Post by monero-xmr »

koito17 wrote: post #7

On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X. Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Redd…

Well the “experts” among us here, WaPo, and the NYT predicted Twitter would surely collapse after firing their SREs and admin that were crucial to keeping the servers running. Any day now Twitter will collapse and all of us will be saved. Surely

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

#103

Post by almyndz »

cubix wrote: post #97
throwaway84846 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the dream of RSS, but it went against the long-term business interests of the corporations hosting content, so it has since largely faded away

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They must work for one of those corporations

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

#104

Post by ilikepi »

cubix wrote: post #97
throwaway84846 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the dream of RSS, but it went against the long-term business interests of the corporations hosting content, so it has since largely faded away

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Perhaps their main account somehow reflects past membership on the Google Reader team...

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

#105

Post by burkaman »

ekianjo wrote: post #77
burkaman wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ad revenue depends on tracking No it doesn't. Surveillance revenue depends on tracking, but people have profitably sold ad space for hundreds of years without any tracking.

Ads WITH tracking sell for a lot more.

Yes, of course, because it's two products bundled as one. You're charging for ad space in addition to a service where you track your visitors individually and build profiles about them. But obviously many people continue to make money by just selling ad space without providing this accompanying service.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

belter wrote: post #47
jjackson5324 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting because the content I get on X is far, far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined. It’s the only place you can follow subject matter experts and get their real time thoughts. I think people on HN just don’t know how to use Twitter? If you want to use it effectively, you have to utilize lists. Curate your own lists or find someone you respect and follow their lists. If someone is posting things…

> far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined What do you learn from 280 characters at a time?

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

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Post by hexage1814 »

koito17 wrote: post #7

On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X. Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Redd…

Ironically enough, to me what it bothers me the most on twitter is how bad and slow its front-end is. Sure, I'm not a fan of having to use an account, but if twitter at least had a nitter instance, like literally the same front-end, I would have way less problems with that.

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

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Post by yterdy »

duxup wrote: post #65
koito17 wrote: post #7

On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X. Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Redd…

I'm inclined to have the same wishes. There's a weird world of outrage about twitter ... on twitter by people who keep providing content for twitter. I don't get that. The further downside being that all the alternatives I've dipped my toes in, the content is pretty much similar to twitter and all the alternatives are offering are various back end type differences, but the same content. So personally I'm not particul…

People are working through their grief, knowing that a utility that is essentially the modern postal service was sold to someone who is essentially the modern Hearst.
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