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

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Post by ogurechny »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #114

Sadly, 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?

Just accept that it's lost. Like tears in the rain, yada yada. Some people don't want permanent chains of information, they prefer sand mandalas that are broken after completion.

After all, it's just a big fake bullshit. There are “fabulous kids clubs” in school. There are “limited membership” snake oil selling and paper medal awarding companies. There are social network services relying on invites and other stuff to make public believe being there is something valuable. It is clear as day that Twitter is at the stage where it has to inflate usage stats by requiring sign-in, and hold user data hostage because it's one of the remaining ways to make some money. If people decide to have a nice chat in a building that is getting demolished without thinking about consequences, it's their choice, after all.

All historic MySpace data was thrown out at some point. Have people killed themselves over that? No, they simply forgot. And you will forget all that, too.

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

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Post by duxup »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #138
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…

> I don't get that. It's the same enshittification we're always talking about now. Something you once enjoyed strategically turns to shit once it believes people are too locked in and docile to leave.

I disagree, it's a choice.

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

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Post by ipv6ipv4 »

geor9e wrote: post #229
ipv6ipv4 wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

Yes.

But there is no aggregation - each user runs their own instances. For any site the offers an API, the API would need to have breaking changes to disable this, or block access from AWS.

It's easy to make work for a developer like crowd (very little time to write). It would work for most developers just fine, and could, with more considerable development time, be good for anyone.

Distributed guerilla social media deconstruction.

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

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Post by maxglute »

npunt wrote: post #52

I 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?

I want the vision that Rabbit is selling, a headless browser that periodically scrolls through my socials and have AI assemble all entries into a readable digest. I would settle for manually scrolling through my timetime to a screen recorder that OCRs all the text and removes the fluff.

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

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Post by rvz »

jodrellblank wrote: post #177
rvz wrote: post #115

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[flagged]

1) There are people who dislike E. Musk but you can't know whether the downvoters are those people or not. 2) Twitter hasn't shutdown, but you can't know if that's connected to the downvotes. 3) Same as 2) 4) You can't know that the parent was downvoted for happily using Twitter. For something which claims to be "the reason and reality", it's really "things I imagine are the reason without evidence, because that lets…

> For something which claims to be "the reason and reality", it's really "things I imagine are the reason without evidence, because that lets me feel superior to strawHN users".

By inspecting the greyed out comments and its content, you can find your evidence of this by simply seeing more of the flagged / dead comments supporting Twitter / X. No explicit admitting is needed.

Thus, this is indeed an over-reaction to the four facts and given the HN sentiment has already been cemented to detest the fact that Twitter / X did not shutdown as incorrectly predicted and any user reminding of this or praising Twitter / X and still likes using it gets downvoted. They will never admit to downvoting themselves.

> The reason I'm writing this is to intercept you going "downvoted for telling the truth" because what you are telling isn't the truth.

When faced with the harsh reality that Twitter / X is still running after 2 years of a prediction of its collapse perhaps that truth hurts many folks here the most.

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

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Post by dmichulke »

A good example of the enshittification of Twitter:

Instead of improving their UI / loading times / privacy standards, they just cut all alternatives off.

Just like reddit.

The user needs are treated like a child would - If I can't see them they're not there.

My bet is if they won't find a new niche, administer themselves (much unwoke, such legal battles, wow) instead of adapting to the users' needs. Eventually, a better option comes along and Twitter falls into oblivion.

Maybe they get some political money along the way.

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

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Post by ogurechny »

wffurr wrote: post #125
matt3210 wrote: post #75

Just make a Twitter account and install an ad blocked

And you have to use the incredibly slow official front end. Seriously how much JS do you need to show 280 characters and some links.

Dear customer, your system is too old to run 20 third party browser fingerprinting libraries in parallel with OS window manager and GUI toolkit re-implemented in Javascript. Please use our service on a recent enough device capable of browser fingerprinting.

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

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Post by throwup238 »

alwa wrote: post #209
dinvlad wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

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

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Post by dinvlad »

alwa wrote: post #209
dinvlad wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

A lot of the things described here, for example: https://publiclab.co/building-in-public
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