- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
A major German party (SPD) decided to quit using Twitter a few weeks ago.
That’s Xitter’s last dying gasp, for me. I have only accessed it through Nitter for many months now.
They want a free market. They want to sell their service across borders. They don’t want law makers to limit what they can do.
And what’s their service? A non-democratic system with many limitations and restrictions and they decide on a very detailed level what you have to do to use it.
It has been a while that Nitter shut down. Still a pity, a few artists posted only there
really only go there for erininthemorn, owen jones, and ash sarkar :(
The only reason to still check Twitter is to see if they have moved off Twitter yet.
So many of my fave artists already left for Bluesky or they also post on tumblr. The reason to have an actual twitter account keeps dwindling by the day.
A while? I used nitter until like 12hours ago.
The brief explanation is that Nitter worked by creating “guest accounts”, which were a leftover from when you used to be able to use the Twitter mobile app without an account. After creation, these accounts lasted for a month. The time since the ability to create these accounts was removed is nearing (has reached?) a month
Posted only on nitter? Isn’t nitter only a frontend for twitter? I don’t think nitter has their own backend, but I can be wrong.
Artists posted on Twitter, which people would access via Nitter
Yeah the top comment makes no sense.
The enshitification is very, very real. This is why the Fediverse is so important.
And with it dying I think that’s probably the last time I’ll look at Twitter. If something isn’t publicly available on something like Mastodon it isn’t worth making an account to see.
I’ve enabled auto redirect from twitter to nitter and never bothered to disable the no longer working redirect. Hopefully people switch to some platform with open API access (or rather, a federated platform)
Guess I won’t be opening any twitter links anymore 🤷
Lol whos using Twitter ?
Unfortunately, lots and lots of people
Too many people/companies/governments depend on Twitter.
That pungent musk of Musk.
The same shit as Reddit. Glory to Mastodon.
That’s not winning a war…that’s isolating your garbage company further.
I see it as a victory….for humanity against Xitter
Apparently he just bought and trashed Twitter because that kid was tracking his plane
Would Swift be the next owner of Twitter then?
I don’t think she is that rich. Is she ?
Alll i know is she’s pissed at the person tracking her flights like Elon was.
I mean, neither was he, and given that the Saudis bankrolled his purchase and he’s apparently reduced the value of their investment by half, you have to wonder what he’s giving them that has saved from from a one-way trip to a Saudi consulate.
I mean, you don’t really have to wonder that hard. But still, somebody loses you multiple billions in an extended ketamine-fueled rampage, you start to wonder if you should make an example of them…
Why do people try to pretend Elon Musk isn’t insanely rich? His net worth can easily be leveraged into 40 billion dollars.
Man those articles suck especially the first one even with a hardened firefox and ublock
Yeah… right.
Scapegoat excuse. Why would he admit that it was to destroy class awareness and cohesion, when he could simply blame a kid?
Taking the opportunity of being forced to buy it to create his very own propaganda machine.
If you believe this then you’d believe in almost anything.
“it’s not me who’s trapped with you, it’s you who’s trapped with the horrible smell of your own farts and diarrhoea”
Win win imo
Same thing 🤷
How come every 3 weeks there is a news that nitter is now dead, and then I go to the Nitter Instance Health Monitor, pick a random instance, and am still able to surf tweets?
I dont get it. Is this wishfull thinking or do people not understand that instances other than nitter.net exist?
Shhhh let them think it died 🤫
It did
Mostly, but I don’t want Twitter to take further measures!
Like what? What’s still alive will time out within a week or so, there’s no keeping them around.
You’ll hear about it thru the grapevine. I’m not talking about it on reddit sorry
Neither of us are on Reddit right now .
But ok, good to hear something will keep going.
There needs to be a move to model more like Invidious where there is a database. Youtube’s got a helluva lot more to index and it’s managed. The account tokens thing was a bit unserious.
In the meantime if you need rss, try this:
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=site:twitter.com/benjaminnorton
just swap out the name.
you have to paste the URL into an archive website lolz unless u want to login. very cumbersome & no retweets. i like having a retweet free RSS tho, no overlaps
also there are mastodon mirrors of twitter accounts and stuff that can be done
anyways, the site SUCKS. this should have been something to hold us over while people come to their senses and leave
Lol disregard my last comment about the Google News trick they made it worse. FFS
Article text:
There are still some active Nitter instances, but they are expected to shut down in the near future as the remaining tokens expire. Three weeks ago, Zed wrote on GitHub that “Nitter is dead.”
Well, that is sad and incontrovertible argument. I guess I should cherish it as long as I can.
all the value is gone, its not worth it anymore anyway
Unfortunately there are still lots of important people contributing to the platform.
:( Mind if I look forward to the day Twitter dies ?
haha, just the title alone, can’t be bothered…haha