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"If nothing changes, all remaining Nitter instances will go down eventually"
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#322X/Twitter is a gross network. It’s like posting links to 4chan.
So a place on the Internet that's still fun? It's sad you're so serious that you're grossed out by that.
You might be from the Tumblr side of the tracks, a place of humorless, distributed Orwellian purity testing and virtue signalling where people sublimate their depression and anxiety disorders by trying to police and cancel each other online while pretending they're making the world a better place. That's way less gross than just having a good time. :D
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nitter currently relies on the mass generation of guest accounts, a weird anonymous form of account that was only supported by old versions of the Twitter app. Creation of them was totally disabled today, so every nitter instance will be dead in under 30 days (when they expire). Scrapers apparently also relied on this, as every public nitter instance was being hammered by scrapers earlier. Instances will probably shu…
I'm gonna guess that these guest accounts might be the reason 'usage is at an all time high' according to musk, but seems to be falling according to everyone else.
Alternative hypothesis: he is lying about usage.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This seems factually incorrect, but in a nuanced way.
The copyright owner of a code is the one listed as such. In cases of multiple contributors, each owns the copyright to their individual contributions. For projects with shared contributions, it's more accurate to say each necessary part has its own copyright owner, rather than a common ownership.
Free software projects do have copyright owners, which can be entities like non-profits or companies. This ownership is crucial for legal standing in copyright infringement cases, except for public domain code, which isn't copyrighted.
It's wise to have a Contributing.md or similar, stating that contributors affirm their creation is original, free from patent issues, and they agree to license their contribution under the project's terms.
Without such agreements, there's a risk contributors might withdraw their code, claiming it wasn't licensed under the project's terms, potentially leaving gaps in the project.
Simply hosting code on a site with a common license doesn't automatically apply that license to your code unless you explicitly agree to it.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Don’t want to give Twitter their personal phone number 2. Twitter SMS system can’t deliver to personal number on my network so can’t create account. 3. Banned from Twitter already. 4. Hate Elon. 5. Ethics (various reason) 6. Privacy 7. A lot of work to read a hot take 8. Social media is addictive. The site gives you crack when you log in. 9. Chinese Firewall (and in some occupied lands it may be a crime to use Twi…
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My guess is that it is 90% hate Elon, and the 10% extra (while true) is because most people want to sound balanced and not hinged.
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
The repository says at the top in a HUGE FONT that "Libreddit is currently not operational" and the website just shows a oneliner saying Germans are not allowed to read that page. The issue tracker talks of forking and stuff. Doesn't feel too welcoming or functional. But in actuality it works just fine? Is the message simply wrong when you plug in your own api key and stay in the free tier of reddit's API?
> and the website just shows a oneliner saying Germans are not allowed to read that page. Curious which website do you mean? The official instance is not online anymore. And I'm not aware of an official libreddit website.
One of the top search results was this page, https://libreselfhosted.com/project/libreddit/>, which links to https://libredd.it> as homepage. Domain sounds plausible so I just assumed that's the official one. The project github page has as "website" one of their tickets listed... can't say if that website field once contained something different
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
This is not about past content that is lost, this is about future content that is still being posted there. Including things like info about security incidents that affect me. At least I think most government authorities have stopped posting life safety information there.
Then login and just sub to those channels? This isn't life/death situation. It's not complicated.
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
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My guess is that it is 90% hate Elon, and the 10% extra (while true) is because most people want to sound balanced and not hinged.
Yes, I secretly quit Twitter in 2018 because I psychically learned that Elon would take it over in 2021 and hate him.
(Really though the actual delete account moment was their post-GDPR ultimatum to consent to tracking or delete your account)
1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 are pre-Elon problems.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and the website just shows a oneliner saying Germans are not allowed to read that page. Curious which website do you mean? The official instance is not online anymore. And I'm not aware of an official libreddit website.
One of the top search results was this page, https://libreselfhosted.com/project/libreddit/ >, which links to https://libredd.it > as homepage. Domain sounds plausible so I just assumed that's the official one. The project github page has as "website" one of their tickets listed... can't say if that website field once contained something different
Ah yes that was the official instance, but they disabled this one at least half a year ago IIRC.