Goodbye twitter I guess. There’s no longer any way to see twitter things people send you without an account
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At this point I’m impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must’ve have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.
Not much, most of this is due to them closing down things. And I wouldn’t blame the developers for the business decisions
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.
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.
Thats really insightfull.
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.
Yeah, for those viewing a link, it definitely works. I meant that it’s too unknown for the non-techies that would want to publicly post something.
Which isn’t to say, they’ve never heard of it, but well, if you’re not excited about technology, it’s likely at least an hour of work, to figure out how everything works. If they know people who are already on such a platform, they’re more willing to invest that much work.
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.
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.
Huh. I don’t think, I’ve ever seen a public post on Facebook, but that’s probably the case, because I’ve rarely ever intentionally clicked on a Facebook link…
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.
Normalize not caring about anything posted on TwitteX.
Normalize an open web without silos.
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.
Plus if it goes bankrupt he won’t be in control of it from what I gather. People seem way too addicted to it to leave though.
TIL about Nitter.
Unfortunate you had to learn about it today mate
Another nail in the coffin for twitter
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.
I figured, it certainly didn’t work on magic. That’s a shame, a lot of shit it reported on Twitter and I refuse to use an account.
I didn’t use Twitter for a decade but occasionally still read my feed until fuckface took over, and then deleted it. But the other day I wondered if someone I knew of who was palliative is still alive so I googled his Twitter, and for some reason they had mercy and let me see he is indeed still living, albeit really incapacitated. So thanks for not being shitty for one second Twitter, and now I hope you die off as a platform and are replaced by the fediverse.
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?
Yes I believe it could, though we’ll see if the devs are willing to keep supporting it
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What a poor name for a social media platform.
I am certain much of the Nitter use is to access 18+ stuff, and if the artists want to keep their incomes protected, they’ll go to Fanbox or Fansly when their users can’t use Nitter for easy wankbait.
Oh no
Edit: Jesus people, /s Y’all are dense sometimes.
That’s not how sarcasm works.
It’s literally the first half of a meme, “Oh no, so anyway.”
everyone got your “sarcasm”. you’re the one being dense here. Nitter was a useful tool for those who have left twitter but needed to access information posted there. It didn’t benefit Twitter in anyway, so there was 0 downsides in using it.
the fact that you make fun of a useful community tool shutting down is why you’re deservedly being downvoted to hell
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