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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 amenhotep »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #43
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).

Why not make an account if you want to read it?

Not the OP but: because I've never wanted to post there and as far as I'm concerned there's no compelling reason I should need one and I'm so offended by Musk and his attempt to force me to get one that I would rather not read it than let him succeed.

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

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Post by npunt »

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?

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

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

burkaman wrote: post #32
erulabs wrote: post #21

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> Ad revenue depends on tracking No it doesn't. Surveillance revenue depends on tracking, but people have profitably sold ad space for hundreds of years without any tracking.

Half the utility of the "global town square" was that anyone can read it. I guess a town square requires an account.

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

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Post by lucb1e »

sphars wrote: post #26
koito17 wrote: post #7

On one hand, this is unfortunate since X always directs me to a login page, and Nitter was the only way I could view whatever gets posted nowadays. On the other hand, the cynical side of me is thankful that I have no more desirable means to see the contents of posts on X. Edit: a similar thing happened with Reddit and Teddit(?). API restrictions effectively killed alternative frontends, so I simply don't look at Redd…

While it is unmaintained now due to the API changes, Libreddit (reddit frontend) is still working for me. Granted, I self-host it, and I'm the only user so I never hit the rate limit, but no issues at all, save for some of the changes reddit has made (namely the new share links)

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?

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

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Post by fragmede »

DistractionRect wrote: post #38
walterbell wrote: post #27

Would a self-hosted private instance of Nitter be an option to avoid rate limits, or are Twitter accounts being penalized for using any third-party API client?

You could, but you'd have to make your own personal twitter account. At that point you're using Twitter with extra steps.

yes but those extra steps make the difference. those extra steps are the entire point. The difference between using the blessed client and using a preferred client that previously accessed the platform via an API is those steps!

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

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Post by xwowsersx »

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'm with you that this is disappointing, but folks who use these sorts of tools tend to be a bit naive about the impact of them going away. It's a little silly, to be honest. Best numbers I could come by is X does something like 100B impressions/day and x.com saw 1.2B visits in the month of December. Will some people stop seeing X posts on Nitter? Sure, maybe. Will it matter to X? I doubt it.

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

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

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.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

burkaman wrote: post #32
erulabs wrote: post #21

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> Ad revenue depends on tracking No it doesn't. Surveillance revenue depends on tracking, but people have profitably sold ad space for hundreds of years without any tracking.

The reason why all adspace isn't priced equally is because of tracking either done by the seller of the adspace or the buyer of the adspace. This has been the case for hundreds of years. The buyer wants to make sure that their ad spend is reaching the maximum amount of people who are likely to end up in an conversion.

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

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Post by _ache_ »

sphars wrote: post #35

Has there been any guides about self-hosting Nitter and using your own personal account, rather than trying to generate a bunch of guest accounts? I ask because while I no longer use Twitter, I have been using the RSS feature from Nitter to follow a few accounts that aren't available elsewhere. So if there's any way to keep doing that, I'd appreciate it if anyone has a solution. And I really don't want to login to Tw…

Yeap, the Installion section of the Github Readme.md of Nitter. Docker based.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#Installation

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