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Post by micromacrofoot »

stouset wrote: post #170
nomilk wrote: post #131

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> Twitter is/was not a utility I've found no substitute for getting breaking news on a specific topic (e.g. natural disasters, war, politics, sport). Google News is second best, but the sites it indexes are at the absolute least 20 minutes behind twitter. Zite was my favourite app from many, many years ago. But it was good at collating daily reading, not for up to the minute/second curation. For certain topics that a…

> the sites it indexes are at the absolute least 20 minutes behind twitter Genuine question: who cares? There is almost no news where the difference between getting it now, twenty minutes from now, or tonight makes a meaningful differ to your life. Much of the information in the first twenty minutes of an event will be confusing, misleading, and/or wrong.

it’s not just big news though, twitter was very useful for hyper local news in cities… to the point that if there were helicopters overhead or some loud noise nearby… usually someone posted about it on twitter - this has been irreplaceable for me, I know less about what’s around me now

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

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Post by micromacrofoot »

serf wrote: post #157
idontpost wrote: post #137

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> But Twitter is/was not a utility The way twitter was used by local governments during emergencies absolutely made it equivalent to one. Fortunately at least my area has moved away from twitter and towards SMS based notifications for that purpose.

>The way twitter was used by local governments during emergencies absolutely made it equivalent to one. those governments should be held responsible rather than giving Twitter a free ticket to calling itself a utility.

but they won’t and now it’s gone anyway, just because it shouldn’t have been that way doesn’t mean we didn’t lose anything

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

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Post by travisporter »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #164
jameshart wrote: post #98

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You are missing the fact that, for many of us who used to enjoy Twitter in exactly the way you described, X no longer fills that need, because the subject matter experts whose real-time thoughts we used to follow have left the platform, and all that remains are people whose real-time thoughts we don't generally want to hear. That may differ from your experience - your real-time expert community might be different tha…

> because the subject matter experts whose real-time thoughts we used to follow have left the platform Do mind naming 10 subject matter experts who've permanently left twitter? I'm really curious as to which communities used to be vibrant on Twitter and then died after the X switch over. Yeah, as you stated, my personal experience is that all the communities I follow continue to be active.

Andrej Karpathy - I guess. The tweets i see when i click on it are out of chronological order, maybe there's something new i don't see

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

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Post by shermantanktop »

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

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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…

It’s HN. Everyone here has encountered many true believers who, when confronted with a criticism of their favorite tool, responds “well, you are using it wrong. Change your workflow to match mine, which is superior anyway, and then you’ll see.”

It’s tiresome, and I for one have little patience for someone patronizingly suggesting that I'm being stubborn for refusing to allow them to enlighten me.

Is that what you were doing? Maybe not. But you certainly matched my regex, so to speak.

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

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Post by graphe »

lucb1e wrote: post #54
sphars wrote: post #26

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While it is unmaintained now due to the API changes, Libreddit (reddit frontend) is still working for me. Granted, I self-host it, and I'm the only user so I never hit the rate limit, but no issues at all, save for some of the changes reddit has made (namely the new share links)

The repository says at the top in a HUGE FONT that "Libreddit is currently not operational" and the website just shows a oneliner saying Germans are not allowed to read that page. The issue tracker talks of forking and stuff. Doesn't feel too welcoming or functional. But in actuality it works just fine? Is the message simply wrong when you plug in your own api key and stay in the free tier of reddit's API?

If they don't want you to use their API just respect their wishes and scrape Reddit. https://github.com/JosephLai241/URS it's the only moral thing we can do.

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

This one still works

nitter.poast.org

I noticed not long ago they started requiring a user-agent string.

Top comment affirms that this is not an announcement as to all instances.

HN title was changed so as not to mislead.

This one still works. That's all I know.

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

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Post by nunez »

muppetman wrote: post #80
xwowsersx wrote: post #57

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I'm with you that this is disappointing, but folks who use these sorts of tools tend to be a bit naive about the impact of them going away. It's a little silly, to be honest. Best numbers I could come by is X does something like 100B impressions/day and x.com saw 1.2B visits in the month of December. Will some people stop seeing X posts on Nitter? Sure, maybe. Will it matter to X? I doubt it.

Exactly. Even the reddit blackouts etc did nothing really - sure a few people left in a huff and all that jazz, but Reddit is still trucking along happily. The only time I've seen the "eff it, we're leaving!" thing actually work was with Digg v4.

Nah, the blackouts definitely hurt Reddit. Deleted posts are the norm now. This was not the case before the API changes.

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

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Post by graphe »

hexage1814 wrote: post #128

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 :\

I don't think so, with other sites giving out free video content. If they all did...

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Post by alwa »

dinvlad wrote: post #183
throwup238 wrote: post #96

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I'm sure that could be said for Erowid or any number of sites with a discussion forum function.

I was cynical about X like that too, but recently learned some good techniques that make a lot of difference to the overall experience. And then there's really nothing like it, in terms of reach. Also, it's easy to see bad in everything, and then all we see is bad. But there're good things to find as well, it's just a matter of what we focus on..

What are some of the good techniques you’ve found success with?

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

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Post by jen729w »

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…

> the content is pretty much similar to twitter

I disagree. I find Mastodon to be much more like the Twitter of '08 that we all loved.

It's like watching over the shoulder of a stranger as they go about their day. But you're welcome there! You can say hi and the stranger is happy to have you.

It's real people sharing their weird hobbies. The often-boring minutiae of their daily life. Their feelings and hopes and dreams.

I've made friends. I feel like I know people. I love it.

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