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

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Post by edflsafoiewq »

belter wrote: post #47
jjackson5324 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

Mostly I follow artists who post pictures, so the character limit doesn't matter.

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

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Post by fragmede »

belter wrote: post #47
jjackson5324 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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

The 280 character limit was raised to 4,000 in February of 2023.

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

#93

Post by dpkirchner »

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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Tweeting screenshots of text demonstrates how poor a platform Twitter is, IMO. A core feature -- sharing text -- must sometimes be done in the least efficient way possible, as an image or a series of tweets (that can only be viewed while signed in).

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

#94

Post by jjackson5324 »

superhumanuser wrote: post #74
jjackson5324 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why is this reply getting downvoted?

I'm guessing

1) HN readers don't like Elon Musk (I don't like him either) so they don't like Twitter

2) I implied HN readers are doing something wrong (as any other human being, they don't like being told that)

3) I (slightly) insulted the intelligence of HN readers by saying they didn't know how to use Twitter and they really don't like that

I've just gotten downvotes and no one's responded with any actual rebuttals so I don't think what I've posted is wrong.

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

#95

Post by dinvlad »

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've recently learned that Twitter can actually be quite good for building genuine connections online, but it takes a very conscious effort and a lot of diligence

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

#96

Post by throwup238 »

dinvlad wrote: post #95
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've recently learned that Twitter can actually be quite good for building genuine connections online, but it takes a very conscious effort and a lot of diligence

I'm sure that could be said for Erowid or any number of sites with a discussion forum function.

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

#97

Post by cubix »

throwaway84846 wrote: post #79
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?

This was the dream of RSS, but it went against the long-term business interests of the corporations hosting content, so it has since largely faded away

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

#98

Post by jameshart »

jjackson5324 wrote: post #94
superhumanuser wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this reply getting downvoted?

I'm guessing 1) HN readers don't like Elon Musk (I don't like him either) so they don't like Twitter 2) I implied HN readers are doing something wrong (as any other human being, they don't like being told that) 3) I (slightly) insulted the intelligence of HN readers by saying they didn't know how to use Twitter and they really don't like that I've just gotten downvotes and no one's responded with any actual rebuttals…

You are missing the fact that, for many of us who used to enjoy Twitter in exactly the way you described, X no longer fills that need, because the subject matter experts whose real-time thoughts we used to follow have left the platform, and all that remains are people whose real-time thoughts we don't generally want to hear.

That may differ from your experience - your real-time expert community might be different than mine.

But for a lot of us who actually used to enjoy Twitter, what you're describing is no longer to be found there.

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

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Post by burkaman »

charcircuit wrote: post #59
burkaman wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

We are specifically talking about individual-level tracking in this conversation. You can also track the efficacy of an ad by, for example, placing a special link in the ad and watching how many people use that link, but that's a completely different subject and not what we're talking about here. That type of "tracking" is not dependent on whether website users are logged in or surveilled in any way.

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

#100

Post by LAC-Tech »

deadbabe wrote: post #83

X/Twitter is a gross network. It’s like posting links to 4chan.

Dunno who you followed, but my little corner of twitter is not gross at all. A lot of smart people, doing cool things, and linking to interesting stuff.

AFAIK you can't curate stuff in 4chan by following/muting/blocking, so it's more like reddit or HN than twitter.

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