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> far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined What do you learn from 280 characters at a time?
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You are being really defensive for no reason...
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#222Sadly, important content is sometimes still posted (only) in the form of Twitter threads. Short of signing up for an account, is there currently a reasonable way of reading those?
What do you mean by important? If it's something related to public safety (civil defence for instance) then it's a real issue that you as a citizen should fight. For everything else you could just stop engaging and hope that enough others do for the content creators to get the message.
Often people who witness live event report what they witness on twitter. Like the boston massacre or Jan 6th attack had a lot of people reporting important eyewitness post right on social media
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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.
Not going to indulge in an 'oh, you like Twitter? Name ten of their albums' kind of question.
My friends left. I left.
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#224This 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.
per the linked page, its only a matter of time until all go down
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#225This 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.
Good to hear. I only follow specific users via nitter (via Feedbro extension)
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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.
While I don't disagree, it requires that both the members of government and the public have a decent technical literacy. I'm not sure how true this is even on HN.
I'd personally love to see the government build a lot of frameworks that can be considered "public goods" and be less reliant on private entities who must generate a profit. I happily pay taxes to serve many networks which operate as natural monopolies, such as roads. I'd also be happy to have that extended to such things as telecommunications. I'd happily pay more taxes if it got rid of my phone bill or internet bill. Though I'd say that personally this is conditioned on them being E2EE and privacy focused, since I consider that information having a higher potential for abuse in a single governmental entity than distributed among corporate powers (even if they still want to abuse it, they can do less and there are competitors).
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#228I just want to run a headless browser that logs into my socials periodically and scrapes the stuff I want from the account I follow and puts it into a less addictive format that provides an upper limit on my possible exposure and engagement. I’m happy to run it locally from my device. Ideally it redirects links to socials I come across too. Where is such a thing?
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
I started using RSS again recently for this reason. I use it for for facebook, twitter, hackernews, etc. Feedbro extension supports public facebook profiles. Nitter clones like https://farside.link/nitter/elonmusk/rss still work.
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#229I just want to run a headless browser that logs into my socials periodically and scrapes the stuff I want from the account I follow and puts it into a less addictive format that provides an upper limit on my possible exposure and engagement. I’m happy to run it locally from my device. Ideally it redirects links to socials I come across too. Where is such a thing?
This can be done with little AWS Lambda scripts that periodically scrape (or API) whatever sites you want and e-mail you results. All the credentials to login to whatever sites can be personal/dedicated to your instance (so no real API limits), and the usage will almost certainly fall into the AWS free tier since it's only for you. The ideal install workflow would be to have a repo of AWS CloudFormation templates to…
In theory, anything is possible with months of developer work. The trouble is, there are billions of people addicted to social media. There aren't many widespread solutions to scrape it. Whenever a scraper becomes even remotely popular, Facebook takes action against it, as accessing posts outside the walled garden is a violation of their terms of service. Currently, I am using a combination of Feedbro and Nitter to scrape all the accounts I want to follow. They currently work with Facebook and have not been blocked.
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It's just like the fediverse, what you see depends on where you hang out around. I can easily find extremely bad corners of the fediverse but again, that's not representative
I wish a map existed. I'd like to see the bad corners.