Nitter is dead.

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Submitted by anethum in technology

it was already dead before but then it found something that enabled it to lurch forward zombie-like for some time but now that workaround's gone as well

as tom scott put it in one of his newsletters, it's the death of the aberration of "public-by-default" social media. though i don't even have strong enough feelings one way or the other to agree or disagree with his "i think this might be a good thing" opinion. i agree with the characterisation of "aberration"; twitter does feel like an experiment that's gone on for too long. it feels like the "normal", the happy place of a "social media" as it were, are forums with 20 active users (hi folks). but also, like, i was only able to find this place from twitter. so i don't know. what do you think? please write in the comments below, and don't forget to like and subscribe if you enjoyed th

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twovests wrote

I've got to hand it to Elon Musk, I didn't appreciate what we had until he threw it away. Hate to say it, but Twitter, for all it's problems, was good.

Things which felt like institutions are dying before fast. Google Search, Twitter, Windows, etc. are all gone or hollowed.

Been thinking about the fact I'll probably live to see linux get replaced or die too. Honestly chilling to think.

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emma wrote

mr breast's gonna buy twitter for 3% of what musk paid for it, and musk's gonna either buy wikipedia or become ceo of the linux foundation.

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hollyhoppet wrote

like it was kind of inevitable given twitter's direction but still what a bummer

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emma wrote

shame. though i did have a good time reading the off-topic comments on github arguing the merits of mastodon in shadow the hedgehog voice.

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anethum OP wrote

[tails voice] guys this is totally off topic, please stop

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Moonside wrote

I think I was banned from Twitter for searching too hard. There's a couple of good guys with permaculture and social science effort threads there that I consulted a lot, but needed some search-fu to find. I think I failed the Turing test.

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Jenheadjen wrote

A shame, without nitter if you don't have an account you cant view threads or comments, only the original post you were linked to, so this leaves users without accounts unable to see most of the site, and i'm sure as hell not making a new twitter account.

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toasthaste wrote

yeah mood. I only just realized I could be using nitter to bypass login a few days ago! and now this 😔 back to just saying "hey I can't see the thread you're linking to can you screenshot it or something" on discord all the time i guess

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