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[–] 108 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Look, im happy they're sticking it to em, but can't we at just stop using that god forsaken site?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    I don't think the main users of these services are Twitter users as you can't log in to Twitter using the alternative frontends, nor can you follow accounts to create a timeline afaik. They're just for viewing tweets eg if someone has sent you a Twitter link and you want to see what it is, or for conducting open-source research on what a person has said or put out historically. At least that's how I use them.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago

    Cut off one head, and two more will grow in its place.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I made my own at https://stopusingx.com but I am having rate limit issues with the amount of use it is getting lmao. I will add more xitter accounts I guess

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    Love to see it, hate to look at it

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    At least these five seemed to work fine, and I ordered them in response time as pinged from Denmark, Europe. Some of the others required annoying "are you human tests":

    https://nitter.meowing.monster/
    https://nitter.click/
    https://tw.eir-nya.gay/
    https://nitter.xitter.cc/
    https://x.n0g.xyz/
    

    As for redirecting, LibRedirect (use wget to download the crx file) still works on Chromium even though it's not manifest v3 yet, although they say they're working on it. Other redirecting services are available.

    I've been using a vibe-coded userscript in the meantime, which is hacky and uses Tweet Grok's Twitter Viewer. I definitely prefer Nitter though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Putting a different veneer on a nazi bar does not stop it from being a nazi bar, and doesn't mean you're not still patronizing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    OMG the amount of wasted efforts going into this shit. Just change to Mastodon already

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    That’s exactly why I built Twitter without an account. I don’t use X as a social network; I just wanted a quick way to open public posts people send me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago
    9 comments in c/antisocialmedia@piefed.social view that post
    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for sharing. Recent news made it sound like Nitter is finito, but apparently they were talking about the domain, not the software.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Your nick is "antisocialmedia", yet you post a frontend for the Nazi-socialmedia? Isn't that called irony? 😁

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I live in a country where government institutions publish things exclusively on corporate social media so those anonymous frontends are a godsend. I also get links to those platforms from people I know and I’m not hardcore enough to cut contact with my friends and family over this like some people on Fediverse tell me to.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago

    Sure. That's your choice. I just don't use those. Especially not that kid's personal playground. And noone is important enough for me to throw away principles for a silly tiny post.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It's very useful to be able to look at links others shared. You just replace the domain part. I want to know what the enemy is doing.

    If there's any irony it's that the fediverse is social media, too.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I get the technical reason, of course. It's just that a hit is a hit. Even if you exclude yourself as the product, you still help to let the platform stay alive. No clicks, no platform

    And yeah sure, fediverse is social media too. But, at least, it's still "real" and free. We're no shitty product.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I didn’t review Nitter source code but I assume Nitter caches Twitter posts because it helps stay low profile. If they don’t, that’s still a cost for Twitter because they don’t get to profile users or display ads, just waste bandwidth. They can brag about user counts but who would trust user counts from a bot infested platform?

    It’s the same reason I buy Kindles. They’re heavily subsidised on the assumption that the end user will buy books from Amazon. If you buy a Kindle while discounted and never buy books from them you likely cost them money.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    OK, the does-produce-cost-that-earns-nothing-in-return-argument is solid. Didn't think of that.

    They can brag about user counts but who would trust user counts from a bot infested platform?

    At this point, it seems the other half of those platforms, that is still human, do. Or else they'd be gone. Or they're just oblivious or ignorant of the fact

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