Musk's changes kill service that let you view tweets without going to Twitter.
  • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    That’s not winning a war…that’s isolating your garbage company further.

  • lastsonofkrypton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Events across the world have reduced my faith in corporations. Open-source, community-driven solutions are definitely the answer. Twitter has closed itself since it was acquired. Not to forget the Reddit api fiasco. With platforms closing themselves, they prevent the right to information. Anyone on the web should be able to access a microblogging site that plays (or played) such an important role in the world.

    Arstechnica post has comments filled with how emergency services updates are posted on Twitter. We should all be part of the solution by promoting an open web that is not controllable by a singular entity. 

    That being said, for a service like emergency alerts, it definitely should be hosted on a site like Mastodon. It even has RSS.

    To make matters worse, I just read an article about how the Indian government might be deciding to block proton mail. 

          • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Like what? What’s still alive will time out within a week or so, there’s no keeping them around.

              • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Neither of us are on Reddit right now .

                But ok, good to hear something will keep going.

                • wall_inhabiter@lemdro.idEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  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

  • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    It has been a while that Nitter shut down. Still a pity, a few artists posted only there

    • Godnroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The only reason to still check Twitter is to see if they have moved off Twitter yet.

      • PM_me_trebuchets@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        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.

      • yhvr@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months 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

    • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk’s changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account.

    “Most Nitter servers were using a technique of generating loads of temporary tokens that were used for accessing the content, but that path is now blocked as well,” the NoLog update today said.

    “I conclude that it is possible to easily acquire thousands of guest accounts within just a few minutes by using proxies, and they are all usable from a single IP address without getting rate limited,” the August 2023 post said.

    I will also develop a service that fetches these continuously, and lets operators request guest accounts for their own instances without having to pay for proxies."

    Pointing to a recent discussion on GitHub, today’s update from NoLog said there may be “a way to spin up a personal Nitter instance with your own account to keep the interface you are used to, but there is no guarantee this will work long-term.”

    “Unfortunately regular accounts can only support a small group of users, so running a public instance this way is not feasible,” the update said.

    The original article contains 729 words, the summary contains 205 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This service going down and me recently deciding to try to check in on whether some people I used to follow on Twitter had migrated elsewhere made me realize how much Twitter’s basically isolated itself from the open web.

    A part of me hopes this serves as a wake-up call for those that were still hovering between using Twitter and weaning off using services like this to reach out to those they follow and let them know, “Hey, if you think you’re still posting publicly…You’re not, only other people here can see this.” For many people that may not matter, but for creators/influencers? I dunno, maybe network effect is enough that they feel the large audience there is plenty, but I’d think they might want as broad of a reach as possible, and a popular but limited view platform isn’t necessarily that.

    Much more importantly though are any government/critical services. They really need to be brought up to date, if they haven’t been already, that the platform is no longer as publicly accessible as it may have once been. Also the same applies not just for Twitter but Facebook and the like as well, but that’s another topic.

    • SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, I can’t believe that governments and infrastructure services are still using it. I can, at best, see your single tweet, and odds are good I can’t see the most recent. It’s nuts that anyone would ever want to use that as a broad communication platform.

    • Perhyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It’s nice in theory, but I’ve had very little luck using it for the last few days.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if whatever instances it picks to send people to are soon afterwards rate limited because demand is too high relative to supply.