Nitter is shutting down
Nitter is shutting down
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11136426
Goodbye twitter I guess. There's no longer any way to see twitter things people send you without an account
Nitter's the only remaining way to browse Twitter comfortably. I guess this is the nail in the coffin for my Twitter browsing.
Twitter browsing
dumpster diving. While the dumbster is burning!
It's a piss off that so many governments and companies still us it as a form of communication.
Control Panel for Twitter is pretty amazing tho
I was just using it a few days ago... ):
I just see that more and more alternative interfaces for propretary social media are dying and that's just sad.
Not really, we have great alternatives that are becoming more and more popular. Sent with Eternity from lemmy
We should definitely bring signatures back Tryin to make a change :-\
Probably lukewarm take: Social media shouldn't be a utility because it provides no social value or improvement of quality of life in the same way other genuine public utilities like electricity, water, sewer services, or general access to the internet, might. It's also putting the government in a position in which it functionally would have to provide a platform for everyone equally, Neo-Nazis, climate deniers, anti-vaccers, and every other person with "insert terrible belief here" included.
Ultimately, saying social media should be a public utility is like saying casinos and strip clubs should be public utilities. Just because it's fun to use doesn't mean it's good for society or come anywhere close to meeting the definition for the level of necessity typically attached to something as a public utility.
When businesses ask you to contact their help-desk via WhatsApp, it's a utility. When people call and message friends, family, and colleagues almost exclusively on WhatsApp or Messenger, it's a utility.
It's also putting the government in a position in which it functionally would have to provide a platform for everyone equally, Neo-Nazis [...]
Godwin's Law People preaching [insert terrible belief] on a government platform would be removed and charged for hate speech just as much as they would be if preaching these things in public spaces. If your government gives people with terrible_belief.jpg the chance to preach on public property, that's not a public property issue, that's a government issue.
Ultimately, saying social media should be a public utility is like saying casinos and strip clubs should be public utilities.
No, it isn't. If anything, turning certain popular social media apps into public utilities would limit them from being pure dopamine hits. Let other websites exist to fill the cesspool void. Not the one my grandma uses.
It is a really good source of unfiltered Information, in theory.
Not uncensored, even though this would then fit in the "public utility" role, but direct. For example people rating restaurants, reporting events etc, tiktok is so good for that.
It is simply media made by humans. For infos with more work instagram and Xitter are good too.
The fediverse could totally replace that, just for tiktok etc. we would need immensive server capacities. Anyone trying to register on a Peertube server knows what I am talking about.
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I used to use nitter to view stuff people sent from twitter. Now I guess I won't ever look at twitter ever again.
I have never been much of a Twitter fan but I have idea why people don't just move away from it. What more incentives do people need? 🤷♂️
Well normies are still on it, and they keep sending me Twitter links, so need a way to view them
The problem is that there isn't a singular replacement. People use Twitter for that feeling of being up to date with everything happening in the world. Until one of the alternatives can deliver that on a larger scale, Twitter will retain a considerable userbase.
I'm pretty sure the people who still use Twitter use it for the drama. Mastodon and Bluesky just aren't as spicy to them. Hell, Mastodon takes setting up to even get anything interesting.
The dumbest people are the ones that never, ever want to change habit.
Twitter/X is such a cesspool. The end of nitter is an occasion to completely stop using Twitter, and instead go to the fediverse, subscribe to a newspaper.
RIP. I didn't use it myself, since I do have accounts there, but it's sad to see it go because of how useful it was for people who didn't want an account.
The squawker seems interesting to me. Unfortunately it's only available on android and there are some issues probably out of their reach. But since I use it for something basic (literally seeing images of some profiles I follow), it serves me well
Squawker doesn't work any longer either
It had this problem, but it started working again after the last update
It's still working for me.
Came here to post a similar comment zedeus made in another thread:
Nitter is dead.
I still checked some Twitter accounts from people that were interesting to me and didn't migrate to Mastodon. One less thing to worry about, I guess.
I only discovered nitter a couple months ago, super sad to see it go
I do not have a Twitter account. I just open any Twitter link in Firefox Klar (amnesic browser), see tweet, close. Musk can never stop letting people view tweet content without an account, unless he wants to kill the platform's public significance. He already killed the chained comments for non-account users..
You can't see replies, accounts, search hashtags or really anything but a singular directly linked tweet. It's basically locked off
Squawker on FDroid is working for me, but I doubt it is going to work for too long. X.com links have already started to be broken.
For this I have only two words: F..k Twitter. Like FB, just visit with VPN, TOR, mask, rubber gloves and disinfectant spray, best from a Cyber Café..
Sad news. I used it when I need to see something on Twitter. I hope Musk kill twitter just like this apps. On the end of the day, I guess that will be good lol
On Android, Squaker still currently works after the latest update. You can view tweets and profiles but not replies. The guy running it is really working overtime for us.