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

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Post by drewdevault »

koito17 wrote: post #33
mastazi wrote: post #25

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> (and owner) of Nitter. I would say that Nitter as a whole is not owned by anyone, that person is the owner of one of the Nitter instances, in addition to being the primary maintainer of the project as you correctly stated. I agree with the second part of your comment about all instances being in danger. It is unfortunately a common problem faced by many privacy-respecting frontends (Nitter, Libreddit, Proxigram, Pi…

I really meant to say "owner of the Nitter project", but you are nonetheless correct about ownership of Nitter instances. I have edited my post.

It's also factually incorrect to suppose that this person owns the Nitter project, too. There's no CLA so the copyright is held in common by all of the contributors. Free software projects don't have owners, they have maintainers, and the maintainers are a social construction rather than a matter of property law.

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

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Post by xigoi »

ipaddr wrote: post #189
dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #90

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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.

Many places require an account, many even paid like New York Times but you have all other social media offering limited views to facebook, instagram, tiktok with signing in.

All of those are just as stupid and should not be linked on HN.

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

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Post by xigoi »

TylerE wrote: post #245
amatecha wrote: post #187

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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.

People have learned to auto-click OK long before cookie banners. Also, cookie banners are not the fault of the EU, but the malicious compliance of companies.

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

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Post by throwaway84846 »

neuracnu wrote: post #261
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 literally reached this discussion thread via the RSS feed for HN. It’s out there. Social networking sites with a vested interest in monopolizing your attention don’t use it. So I don’t use them.

Outside of the tech community those see little use. Listings for my local music and arts scenes are on Instagram and Facebook. Underground community events are planned using proprietary group chats.

Free culture and open internet activists lost this battle

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

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Post by HereIGoAgain »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #58
Me1000 wrote: post #11

This is disappointing because often times people link to threads on Twitter but if you’re lucky enough to not get a login wall, the full thread wont be visible without logging in. (Which I’m not going to do) I really wish people would just stop linking me to twitter (or better yet, stop using it altogether).

It sucks. I don't want to use twitter but it's where people post. Nitter fulfilled my lurker only use case.

Same.

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

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Post by the_why_of_y »

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 emphasize hypocrisy and censorship at the command of authoritarian regimes, while Elon himself posts disinformation about election laws in the US.

https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/15/once-again-free-speech-a...

https://popular.info/p/musk-uses-megaphone-to-promote-mislea...

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

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Post by Kye »

strogonoff wrote: post #192
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 may want social media to be pipes, not platforms. Convince the government to forbid the business model in which most of users are not paying customers but a product offered to advertisers. Then, social platforms will not care if you use whatever client you desire. Big Social shareholders don’t want it, though. Being a double-sided market is addictive, and no one can compete with them if they capture the market by…

Another future was possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid...

It's too bad the silofication of the 2010s killed it off.

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