At this point I'm impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must've have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.
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Wait, they still have devs? I thought they fired all of them already...
AI devs if you will
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.
I don't know, at least in Finnish news I see constantly broken embeds with "view in Instagram/twitter whatever" no matter how closed those are... :(
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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).
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Elon can go fuck himself
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
And nothing of value was lost.
There are still local governments or police forces announcing important things via Twitter. There are still interesting and smart people posting there. There are all those "legacy" accounts which are not active anymore, but have valuable content. Nitter was the last way to read this and this is now lost.
If they were truly smart they wouldn't be on a site run by a narcissistic right wing billionaire with breeding fantasies that's turned it into a fascist echo chamber rife with CSAM, antisemitism, and disinformation.
If Stephen King wants to share his accumulated wisdom for free with millions of readers, hopeful artists, random people on the street who’ve never heard of him, what is the best way to reach them? Start a blog that will never show up in any search results behind the pages of machine-generated SEO junk about how they have answers for “Stephen King blog”, right? Because then he had zero impact but retains the moral high ground.
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https://nitter.d420.de is the old instance uptime & health checks site. https://status.d420.de/ is the new one.
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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Ever since Twitter became X, I don't think the instance has ever worked for me.
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