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.
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.
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).
Every Twitter announcement be like:
Normalize not caring about anything posted on TwitteX.
Normalize an open web without silos.
That would be great if other important people stopped posting important information there.
Elon can go fuck himself
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.
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.
I wish I could find the article, but when Musk first started breaking shit and locking everything down, local meteorological accounts realized people could start missing important public information like tsunami and earthquake warnings, and they had no other way to reach the public than through Twitter.
Twitter being accessible only via direct links to tweets is still not an acceptable solution, because how would I know what the URL is for the latest Icelandic volcano warning (for example)?
Unironically Facebook is fairly reliable for what you're describing. It nags you with a login popup regularly, but beyond that everything important is readable even without an account.
For me, after scrolling just a bit, it always pop up asking me to log in and no longer lets me scroll on the page anymore. It happens to me on both mobile and desktop.
It's really annoying when trying to look at events or business pages.
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.
With Tesla’s stock price dropping 12% the person who might be forced to give up Twitter is Musk. His purchase was secured with Tesla stock.
Dang nitter was getting better too. Can’t say I’m surprised though with the way X has been going
Another nail in the coffin for twitter
If Twitter succeeds in becoming a super app. Wouldn't they then become a "platform" in EU terms? Thus requiring them to interoperate?
Isn't there a requirement for number of users as well? It's not really growing right now
it's ok, twitter will shut down after the US election anyway...
I wish...
What the shit is/was Nitter? Sorry I can't seem to keep up.
A way of reading twitter posts without needing to go to twitter. Particularly useful since you now need an account to see twitter posts.
https://nitter.d420.de is the old instance uptime & health checks site. https://status.d420.de/ is the new one.
Do FOSS apps like Squawker rely on the same api I wonder
It's been acting up the last two weeks so it seems like it does, tried the upstream version and even thats acting up, I think this is it.
Some instances seem to still be working fine. Can someone ELI25?
The method they are using will still work until expiry (up to 30 days)
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