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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.
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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…
You can try to guess the reason for such high temperature user boiling, it's not hard. There is a single TOS and privacy agreement for all Google services. If you “just” log in to Chrome to synchronize history because “it's convenient”, you also allow everything else, including AdSense and other all-across-the-web tracking. By formally becoming a client, you lose most of legal protections against indiscriminate data…
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-19...
This is just an instance shutting down, not all of the Nitter instances. Sort of a deceptive title.
"If nothing changes, all remaining instances will go down eventually: Instances rely on guest accounts, which are valid for a certain time and of which you need a ton to run a public instance. The API for this got taken down and it doesn't look like a fluke this time."
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…
Including things like info about security incidents that affect me.
At least I think most government authorities have stopped posting life safety information there.
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?
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.
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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.
Oh, does it mostly affect searching? 99% of the time I touch twitter, it's to go to a specific tweet or timeline.
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"many were banned for saying things that were unpopular but true" Can you cite one confirmed example?
Given only a fraction of account bans make the news, the problem was probably much bigger than the news indicates. Maybe 10-100x (what's the ratio of newsworthy to regular folks?). Also, when a prominent user is banned, others see that and clam up on the topic lest they face the same fate; they tread on egg shells, which doesn't constitute a healthy community for them.
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I refuse to login to twitter for ethical reasons. If someone links me to a tweet I assume it’s because they thought I’d find it interesting. It’s a thoughtful act which deserves a little bit of effort on my part, so I’m willing to change the domain to see it. I’m not willing to login though. It’s a principle thing.
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