Goodbye twitter I guess. There’s no longer any way to see twitter things people send you without an account
At this point I’m impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must’ve have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.
Wait, they still have devs? I thought they fired all of them already…
Not much, most of this is due to them closing down things. And I wouldn’t blame the developers for the business decisions
There’s no longer any way to see twitter things people send you without an account
Thank God. Maybe news articles will stop embedding tweets in articles.
Privacy badger hides tweets in articles completely. I love it.
By percent I bet the amount of people using nitter is miniscule, meaning Twitter spent a lot of time making sure a small amount of people can’t access the tweets.
There was probably a large number of bots using the same method that nitter uses to scrape data.
It was how I scraped.
Every Twitter announcement be like:
I wish less people used Twitter. Like my city exclusively communicates through Twitter
They’re not also locked into Facebook? It seems like far too many public services communicate through these non-public platforms (i.e. often more easily viewed or sometimes only viewable with an account).
To be fair, before all this nonsense, this is what made Twitter unique and important. Twitter was the one way through social media “the average Joe” could be heard on the public stage. No normal person is getting time on the news.
Because of its short format the message had to be simple and concise, which made it special in the social media space. Someone saying something about a current event and then the “semi-democratization” process of being shared and liked or whatever the mechanism was (never was a user), and that message then making it into the news media, was a good thing. It actually was an opportunity for normal people to have a voice. And not just for Americans but for people in other countries who have even less of a voice.
Which is why the current events are so ironic, all of that being ruined, in the name of the billionaire morons claim of “free speech platform.” He couldn’t even see the perspective I’m coming from because he has a path to the public stage.
Elon can go fuck himself
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https://nitter.d420.de is the old instance uptime & health checks site. https://status.d420.de/ is the new one.
Man, I mixed Nitter and Ninite and was in absolute horror
Whats Ninite?
It’s a website that lets you select many apps you use in a daly basis and makes a single installer for them all. Very useful if you’re always formatting your pc
Windows crap that Linux distros have had for literally decades.
Ouch, I cut myself on your edge 😢
Linux doesn’t have Edge.
That’s just gross. I wonder how many installs it actually has.
all the xbox kids are mad that their spyware OS is falling behind the latest decade+ in modern computing.
How are those docker containers in windows again? A fucking tragedy?
it still could be made working with using real logins for scraping which can be a bit illegal but if you do it on your personal instance it would be more than enough. I’m not sure, maybe nitter already supports this instead of guest tokens?
There’s nothing illegal about breaking Twitter terms of service. You might get banned, but that’s it.
I thought about this recently with Instagram, when I got linked there as the ‘official’ information page for an event. I could see the post with the general information, but couldn’t read the comments to see if any more information or clarifications had been posted.
That was an event, where the organizers obviously wanted as many people as possible to show up, and Instagram was doing them a disservice in that. I wasn’t going to sign up to Instagram to view those comments. And my parents couldn’t sign up to Instagram. It’s too complex for them.
Twitter has been gone for the non-Nitter using general public for a while. So, at this point, if you’re not a techy, where can you still publicly post information? TikTok, I think? YouTube, I guess. Mastodon would be an option, but it’s verging on being too unknown for non-techies, as does BlueSky.
We’ve gone from a time where everyone and their mother could publicly announce things on the internet, to a pretty big vacuum.
It’s going to be interesting what fills this space. Theoretically, even personal webpages might have a bit of a comeback.As a public, we’ve gone back to the days when the internet was a techies platform.
The difference now is it’s a techies platform Vs. a corporate platform.
The more convenient FOSS social media is, the less techie it will be, and the closer we’ll get back to the more open internet for all.
Until then we have an open internet for techies alone.
So, at this point, if you’re not a techy, where can you still publicly post information? TikTok, I think?
TikTok or any such other crap is not publicly.
It takes like, $0 and a cup of coffee at most to start a simple page in neocities for a simple announcement. Heck, in the absolutely simplest cases available you can literally upload your own announcement (a picture, a PDF or smth) to ufile.io and just pass around the link to that.
I don’t see the problem with mastodon, people without accounts can’t reply, but it can still be used as a message board. It’s not much different from linking to a wordpress blog.
Most things haven’t moved over there from xitter. So if I want to follow an author, a band, an event, or even a theatre or other venue, I have to rely on bot accounts reposting from xitter, which assumes that I even know how to do that. It isn’t something my mom will do without instructions, and even then it’s not something she’s likely to check or keep up with because it is not as intuitive.
The place does not have the followers to convince entities like I mentioned above to move there or upkeep accounts there. The TLA isn’t out there posting bookings and upcoming events/cancellations on Mastadon.
If you’re a customer, sure. But if you’re a seller, it’s about as handy for the basic “I need some form of web presence but don’t wanna make and upkeep a website” use case, which facebook, instagram and twitter are increasingly failing at.
So, honestly these businesses go where the people are and Mastadon also doesn’t have the userbase of xitter.or Facebook even in their decline. My kids school doesn’t update delayed openings on Mastadon. Because most kids, and a whole lot of adults aren’t on there.
Businesses weren’t advertising on Facebook when it was “theFacebook.com”. It took a while to gain a userbase that was beneficial to businesses and entities to post there and maintain accounts.
My kids school doesn’t update delayed openings on Mastadon. Because most kids, and a whole lot of adults aren’t on there.
They don’t have to stop posting there. They can do both.
Honestly, let’s bring geocities back (not exactly in that form). Anything that isn’t a throwaway post on social media goes there, and you can post links to it from all the social platforms for reaching a broader audience. Then there’s a place for getting the most up to date information about an event, that doesn’t require making an account, and the person putting the event on doesn’t have to make sure posts across multiple platforms are updated with the same new information.
There’s Neocities: https://neocities.org/
Pair it with an own domain name and it’s a perfectly valid personal homepage.
I wish people would just abandon X. Nitter was just extending the inevitable. They don’t want any of us, only fascists. Let them have their own place and leave the rest of us out of it. Better for law enforcement if all the wannabe terrorists are all in one place anyway.
