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

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Post by tga_d »

nomilk wrote: post #178
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #154

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We're all sharing the same links, articles, jokes, memes, ideas, cat pictures. What differentiates a place is its sense of community, not its content. It's easy to forget that because Twitter long ago stopped being a community.

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>The Elon era seems to emphasise truth over sensitivities

I've never heard anyone claim that misinformation went down with the acquisition--Musk infamously gutted that department, and I've seen plenty of claims at least from journalists and the EU that the problem is now worse. Anecdotally, I left Twitter not for ideological reasons, but because my timeline become filled with algorithmic noise from what were clearly bots I wasn't following. Do you have evidence to back up that claim?

>some suspected (but couldn't prove) being shadow banned for having contrarian viewpoints.

I would think we would have seen actual indication of that by now if that were true; given all the "Twitter files" and whatnot that turned out to be a nothingburger, if there was a there there, employees were certainly motivated to air it after the acquisition, if not before. In any case, it's certainly indisputable that Musk has been more than willing to artificially inflate accounts he wants to promote (the latest I know of being the Mr. Beast debacle), which, outside of expressly labelled advertising, I don't remember being a thing before, though again, I'm open to the possibility of being wrong about that.

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

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Post by 0xjpa »

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

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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…

Getting more value from tech twitter these days.

I mostly follow L7+ SWEs, creators of popular tech like dynamoDB, and professors in AI/systems/DB/PL. The ones who tried to move to sites like mastodon eventually came back, or are now using twitter much more than these alternatives. There's been more top SWEs and professors especially in AI and systems sharing content there.

Noticed as well that twitter is also more optimistic about tech than HN, especially with subcultures like e/acc, learning/building in public, etc.

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

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Post by mardifoufs »

ipaddr wrote: post #193
mardifoufs wrote: post #112

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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.

It's weird to say but the "worst" parts (as in, questionably legal content and not just controversial content) in my experience has been in non English speaking instances. But just think of basically any community and they have a mastodon spin off, especially they have been deplatformed somewhere else.

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

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Post by TylerE »

amatecha wrote: post #153
qaziquza wrote: post #145

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The point being: archive with yt-dlp while we still can.

Yes, assume every video you watch and like is going to get deleted in a week or month or year, or whatever. We don't know the timeline but it's really not a question of "if", just when.

The vast majority of content is essentially ephemeral. I don’t tend to go back and rewatch random videos from years ago.

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

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Post by TylerE »

amatecha wrote: post #187
hexage1814 wrote: post #162

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It's not the same site, but it's the same company: one thing that caught my attention lately is those little messages nagging you whenever you access Google without being logged in. And... those sorta passive aggressive behavior always start like this. Like, "Oh, why don't you log in? It's good for you, log in!", and as the time passes that behavior just gets more and more hostile towards the user until you end up re…

Oh yeah, that's right! I've noticed those nag modals are filling over 1/3 of my screen! On all kinds of sites! So coercive and manipulative. I can see why some people just browse with JS disabled and just forget about sites that require it.

Thank the EU. Cookie dialogs trained people to mindlessly click ok to make them go away, so they convert like crazy.

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

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Post by TylerE »

walterbell wrote: post #119
DistractionRect wrote: post #38

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You could, but you'd have to make your own personal twitter account. At that point you're using Twitter with extra steps.

For those who need timely access to information that is only available on Twitter, the account is unavoidable. The benefit of extra steps is a client under user control, e.g. filtering, RSS, better threading and more.

If timely is the key criterion isn’t sticking a caching layer in the middle the opposite of helping?

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

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Post by crtasm »

geor9e wrote: post #228
throwaway84846 wrote: post #79

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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.

That URL redirects me to various instances, some of which are not working.

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

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Post by crtasm »

flexagoon wrote: post #218
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?

You can generate an RSS feed of any twitter user using RSS Bridge: https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/

I tried that earlier.

"Message: Missing configuration option: twitterv2apitoken"

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

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Post by Dalewyn »

tga_d wrote: post #241
nomilk wrote: post #178

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>The Elon era seems to emphasise truth over sensitivities I've never heard anyone claim that misinformation went down with the acquisition--Musk infamously gutted that department, and I've seen plenty of claims at least from journalists and the EU that the problem is now worse. Anecdotally, I left Twitter not for ideological reasons, but because my timeline become filled with algorithmic noise from what were clearly…

>I've never heard anyone claim that misinformation went down with the acquisition

Twitter Japan's recommendations feed was inundated with political bullshit nobody cared about.

Musk came in, fired everyone at Twitter Japan, and the recommendations feed changed to anime, manga, visual novels, games, music, and other such pop cultural subjects that everyone cares about. Japanese Xers love Musk for cleaning house.

The change was obvious to all, and personally I finally could justify making an account to better manage the handful of accounts I always kept tabs on (news postings from games I play, new art from illustrators I like, etc.).

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