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

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

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Post by smoldesu »

timeon wrote: post #36
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a terrible site though and calls to disallow submissions from there (in comments here) were common going back well before Musk took over, so the Twitter dislike originated independently of anyone's views about him.

Dislike is not priority or let say common denominator. Problem is that X/Twitter cannot be viewed without login. This was not the case before.

In fairness, before Nitter (or even Musk) there was a highly inconsistent guest browsing policy on Twitter. One week you could read entire threads without logging in, the next week every inbound link would redirect to the registration page. Before Nitter I just stopped clicking Twitter links entirely, because I never knew if it would show any content.

At this point, submitting screenshots of a thread you like would unfortunately be more accessible. Shocking that we have to say that about static text content, but here we are in 2024...

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

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Post by nativeit »

lancesells wrote: post #123
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.

Twitter isn't special in that regard. Not having Facebook or Instagram does the same thing or at least you get a very limited view. I think it's all bullshit as those networks exist because of the people are posting as a means to share.

It’s special in its utterly hypocritical espousing of Twitter as some digital “town square” led by “free speech absolutists”.

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

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Post by toastercat »

smoldesu wrote: post #4

Maybe this is a good moment to reconsider the acceptance of X links on HN. If users without accounts have no way to read the content, why redirect people there en-masse?

Yes. Please disallow X/Twitter links and stop forwarding traffic to that cursed user-hostile site.

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

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Post by travisporter »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #260
travisporter wrote: post #203

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Andrej Karpathy - I guess. The tweets i see when i click on it are out of chronological order, maybe there's something new i don't see

Nah Andrej is still active on [Twitter]( https://i.imgur.com/KEa6dx4.png ) I'm guessing he's less active now because he's back at OpenAI and not on sabbatical anymore.

Thanks!

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

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Post by dang »

pard68 wrote: post #8

This is just an instance shutting down, not all of the Nitter instances. Sort of a deceptive title.

The submitted title was "Nitter Is Dead". We changed it to the article title overnight, but I've since changed it to a representative sentence from the text.

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

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Post by vineyardmike »

teddyh wrote: post #317
lucb1e wrote: post #28

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> Twitter/X walled-garden I think the MIME type should be `X-Walled-Garden/Twitter`

Internet media types (previously known as “MIME types”) with “X-” prefixes are now discouraged.

For many in this thread, X is now discouraged as well. /s

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

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Post by zilti »

throwaway84846 wrote: post #274
neuracnu wrote: post #261

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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

We lost the battle, but not the war.

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

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Post by Me1000 »

MikusR wrote: post #282
Me1000 wrote: post #50

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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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Ethics aren't binary nor are they black and white. I chose to draw my line where I did, you may draw yours wherever you like. I'm not here to judge, simply answering a question.

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

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Post by amatecha »

yreg wrote: post #173
justnotworthit wrote: post #141

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im reminded of an ipad app 10 years ago that did roughly this, creating a magazine like interaction with your twitter, google reader, etc.

Flipboard https://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/21/flipboard-a-social-maga...

Oh yeah that's more likely the one, rather than paper.li . Surprising how similar they are! I forgot about Flipboard.

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

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Post by amatecha »

tjpnz wrote: post #132
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?

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.

Yeah, it's unfortunate as it took years for governments/municipalities/orgs etc. to start posting stuff to Twitter and embracing that modern "information pipeline" (as opposed to, at best, a rarely-updated website). Now it's taking years for them to adopt or figure out a self-hosted/self-owned alternative.
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