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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

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?

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 Twitter)

10. Too many logins for shit already.

11. NSFW bot accounts trying to chat you up

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

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Post by lucb1e »

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?

That sounds like a case of be the change you wish to see. Such a project sounds rather substantial, not only initially but also in upkeep. Might want to be more specific, such as "does this exist for my favorite social network called ?"

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

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Post by sergiotapia »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #45
AstroJetson wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, it will be easier to cut the X habit off. I'll miss Nitter, but I'll be happier in the long run. I was a Reddit Apollo user, and it was easier to wean off of Reddit when I had to use their horrible app or their website. Even using old.reddit has been painful.

Interesting because the content I get on X is far, far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined. It’s the only place you can follow subject matter experts and get their real time thoughts. I think people on HN just don’t know how to use Twitter? If you want to use it effectively, you have to utilize lists. Curate your own lists or find someone you respect and follow their lists. If someone is posting things…

> Interesting because the content I get on X is far, far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined.

That has been my experience as well. Easily. I learned a ton about LLMs, open source projects, growth hacks, marketing tips, a lot of great from the trenches lessons. Best site on the web.

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

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Post by paulgb »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #48
belter wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined What do you learn from 280 characters at a time?

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There's also a much higher character limit for paying users, so you can post an entire essay in a tweet now. Look at basically everything Bill Ackman[1] posts, for example.

[1] https://twitter.com/BillAckman

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

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Post by duxup »

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…

I'm inclined to have the same wishes.

There's a weird world of outrage about twitter ... on twitter by people who keep providing content for twitter. I don't get that.

The further downside being that all the alternatives I've dipped my toes in, the content is pretty much similar to twitter and all the alternatives are offering are various back end type differences, but the same content. So personally I'm not particularly happy with those either.

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

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Post by MallocVoidstar »

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)

It's been forked by a maintainer as redlib: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

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

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Post by sphars »

lucb1e wrote: post #54
sphars wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I think that message was to let users know it's basically on it's last legs and could 100% stop at anytime. When the API changes started, most all of the instances ran into rate limits due to the number of requests. But it works just fine until that rate is hit.

Like I mentioned, I've been running my own private instance and I've never hit the rate limit so it's been working fine for me.

And I don't know about any API key. AFAIK, Libreddit uses the publicly available JSON, no need for a key (hence why it's read-only). Since it's still working for me, those JSON endpoints must still be available, just highly rate limited now

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

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Post by sphars »

MallocVoidstar wrote: post #66
sphars wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

It's been forked by a maintainer as redlib: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Thanks for posting, I'll check this out. I knew that maintainer was working on a fork, but I never saw it advertised.

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

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Post by MallocVoidstar »

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…

Keep in mind that Twitter might ban you for doing that. They really don't like anything that could be considered scraping (unless you pay them a lot of money).

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

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Post by jjackson5324 »

paulgb wrote: post #64
jjackson5324 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There's also a much higher character limit for paying users, so you can post an entire essay in a tweet now. Look at basically everything Bill Ackman[1] posts, for example. [1] https://twitter.com/BillAckman

Yep exactly, that too!
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