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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 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

nubinetwork wrote: post #291
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #206

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.

I'm not touching a server owned by kiwifarms.

Wow, I did not know that. It is just an instance that seems to work better than all the others I tried.

There was a submission about KF a while ago and it summoned an army of impromptu commenters that literally took over the thread, suppressing any negative commentary. Interesting PR strategy.

TBH, I do not use Twitter much at all. It's only when I'm checking something someone submitted to HN. Would be nice if people stopped submitting "tweets". There is rarely anything worth reading in them. Often it's just someone sharing a URL. Why not submit the URL instead.

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

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Post by timeon »

cubefox wrote: post #49

Websites like Quora, Instagram, TikTok, and now X, work against the idea of an open Web. Content is increasingly concentrated into separated silos. But I understand why it's happening: People who don't have an account can't receive personalized ads.

> But I understand why it's happening

I'm not even mad at them that they want to pay the bills. What I find sad was the method they have used: capture community as big as possible and then sell the community. So many people and orgs fell for that. Now the 'squares' are closed. There is no public internet, just niches.

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

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Post by timeon »

yreg wrote: post #185
cubefox wrote: post #49

Websites like Quora, Instagram, TikTok, and now X, work against the idea of an open Web. Content is increasingly concentrated into separated silos. But I understand why it's happening: People who don't have an account can't receive personalized ads.

I don’t use TikTok much, but when I see a (web) link to content there it’s always publicly available.

For now.

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

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Post by rsynnott »

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?

Get different socials, is about your only option at this ppoint.

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

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Post by rsynnott »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #296
tjpnz wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A classic example would be a description of the findings about some security bug or breach.

That’s largely on Mastodon; security-Twitter was one of the first communities to migrate.

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

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Post by nunez »

MikusR wrote: post #281
nunez wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, the blackouts definitely hurt Reddit. Deleted posts are the norm now. This was not the case before the API changes.

Deleted and overwritten posts were a thing for long before the api change.

yes, but they are every other post you find on google now.

i certainly didn't help; i used shreddit to overwrite then delete my posts.

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

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Post by martin82 »

neilv wrote: post #16

If all Nitter instances get shut down, that's another reason for people to stop putting information into the Twitter/X walled-garden. Nitter has had the effect of a pressure release valve, for the people who object most to Twitter/X. Without the Nitter compromise, more people will stop linking to Twitter/X threads, indulging people who still post there, etc.

I think leftists who are losing their minds over Elon Musk's Twitter are a loud minority. If Nitter goes down, nothing at all will change. Twitter will continue to thrive and people will continue to use it and link to it.
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