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Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

EDIT: I gotta admit, there is a lot of red in the last days. But it is not completely gone. Yet.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 year ago

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."

[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

Well, that is sad and incontrovertible argument. I guess I should cherish it as long as I can.

[-] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 10 points 1 year ago

Shhhh let them think it died 🤫

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It did

[-] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Mostly, but I don't want Twitter to take further measures!

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

You'll hear about it thru the grapevine. I'm not talking about it on reddit sorry

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neither of us are on Reddit right now .

But ok, good to hear something will keep going.

[-] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Lol disregard my last comment about the Google News trick they made it worse. FFS

[-] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year 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