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

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Post by cgh »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #45
AstroJetson wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it will be easier to cut the X habit off. I'll miss Nitter, but I'll be happier in the long run. I was a Reddit Apollo user, and it was easier to wean off of Reddit when I had to use their horrible app or their website. Even using old.reddit has been painful.

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…

Nearly every subject matter expert I followed has left. Scientists, mathematicians, journalists, authors, comic book people, and so on.

What I now see are people with demented political opinions about women and American politics. It sucks.

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

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Post by lancesells »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #90
s1artibartfast wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not make an account if you want to read it?

Having to make an account to read a website sounds idiotic. Why should twitter be special in that regard? It's not so you're essentially promoting the idea that we should have to make an account to read any website, which is idiotic.

Twitter isn't special in that regard. Not having Facebook or Instagram does the same thing or at least you get a very limited view. I think it's all bullshit as those networks exist because of the people are posting as a means to share.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

yterdy wrote: post #109
duxup wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But Twitter is/was not a utility, not a “modern post office” not a “town square” (before someone tries to bring up that terrible analogy too) and really doesn’t deserve people’s grief. It’s yet another corporate-owned and controlled messaging app and we are seeing the inevitable result of that control.

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

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Post by deadbabe »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #100
deadbabe wrote: post #83

X/Twitter is a gross network. It’s like posting links to 4chan.

Dunno who you followed, but my little corner of twitter is not gross at all. A lot of smart people, doing cool things, and linking to interesting stuff. AFAIK you can't curate stuff in 4chan by following/muting/blocking, so it's more like reddit or HN than twitter.

I don’t follow anyone on Twitter or even look at it. Content from there just feels slimy. Usually if someone posts a link, it’s something popular or viral, and that means the comments section will be filled with all kinds of crap. Right now I prefer Threads.

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

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Post by hexage1814 »

I wonder if Youtube will ever do the same with Invidious by requiring an account for people to view videos.

Sure, it might seen unthinkable for this to happen in 2024, but give it more 5 or 10 years and I could see this being something acceptable to the eyes of the average user. I don't like the direction the internet is going :\

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

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Post by globalnode »

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…

twitter and facebook have mostly been garbo for me, what i would like to know is where are the interesting mathematicians and software engineers posting now? or have they had enough too. i suspect that may be the case.

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

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Post by viraptor »

monero-xmr wrote: post #102
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

Here's a challenge: find an article from either wapo or nyt which actually predicted a sure collapse. And I mean a collapse as you said rather than issues with operations. (which they had many of since the takeover) I may have missed one if it exists, but I'd bet they didn't publish anything that certain.
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