That’s not winning a war…that’s isolating your garbage company further.
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.
It has been a while that Nitter shut down. Still a pity, a few artists posted only there
The only reason to still check Twitter is to see if they have moved off Twitter yet.
The enshitification is very, very real. This is why the Fediverse is so important.
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 it 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.
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.
Twiit (https://twiiit.com/) checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.
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.
Well yeah, it’s not a proper long-term solution. But making a twitter account with a burner email from Guerrilla Mail is surprisingly easy, I guess that will be the only option going forward.
Goodnight, Nitter. o7
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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.
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.”
Guess I won’t be opening any twitter links anymore 🤷
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.
