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EpicVision ,

Twiit (twiiit.com) checks for nitter instances that still work and redirects you.

Perhyte ,

It’s nice in theory, but I’ve had very little luck using it for the last few days.

I wouldn’t be surprised if whatever instances it picks to send people to are soon afterwards rate limited because demand is too high relative to supply.

EpicVision ,

Well yeah, it’s not a proper long-term solution. But making a twitter account with a burner email from Guerrilla Mail is surprisingly easy, I guess that will be the only option going forward.

ipkpjersi ,

The enshitification is very, very real. This is why the Fediverse is so important.

lastsonofkrypton ,

Events across the world have reduced my faith in corporations. Open-source, community-driven solutions are definitely the answer. Twitter has closed itself since it was acquired. Not to forget the Reddit api fiasco. With platforms closing themselves, they prevent the right to information. Anyone on the web should be able to access a microblogging site that plays (or played) such an important role in the world.

Arstechnica post has comments filled with how emergency services updates are posted on Twitter. We should all be part of the solution by promoting an open web that is not controllable by a singular entity.

That being said, for a service like emergency alerts, it definitely should be hosted on a site like Mastodon. It even has RSS.

To make matters worse, I just read an article about how the Indian government might be deciding to block proton mail.

mintiefresh ,

Just switch to mastodon.

kandoh ,

It’s great but no one interesting really posts on there

Blaze ,

It has been a while that Nitter shut down. Still a pity, a few artists posted only there

Godnroc ,

The only reason to still check Twitter is to see if they have moved off Twitter yet.

PM_me_trebuchets ,

So many of my fave artists already left for Bluesky or they also post on tumblr. The reason to have an actual twitter account keeps dwindling by the day.

mumblerfish ,

A while? I used nitter until like 12hours ago.

yhvr ,

The brief explanation is that Nitter worked by creating “guest accounts”, which were a leftover from when you used to be able to use the Twitter mobile app without an account. After creation, these accounts lasted for a month. The time since the ability to create these accounts was removed is nearing (has reached?) a month

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

really only go there for erininthemorn, owen jones, and ash sarkar :(

HappyFrog ,

Posted only on nitter? Isn’t nitter only a frontend for twitter? I don’t think nitter has their own backend, but I can be wrong.

Blaze ,

Artists posted on Twitter, which people would access via Nitter

phoneymouse ,

Yeah the top comment makes no sense.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i can still access it through nitter.net (even if the cert is not working you can still use the ‘thisisunsafe’ method in chrome).

Dkarma ,

Not 4 long

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

Really trying to spez things up huh? Bold move Cotton.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Musk was a trailblazer for Spez.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

They stand on the shoulders of giant assholes.

TheObviousSolution ,
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee avatar

That pungent musk of Musk.

Fiivemacs ,

That’s not winning a war…that’s isolating your garbage company further.

LEDZeppelin ,

I see it as a victory….for humanity against Xitter

noodlejetski ,

“it’s not me who’s trapped with you, it’s you who’s trapped with the horrible smell of your own farts and diarrhoea”

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Same thing 🤷

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Win win imo

zcd ,

Apparently he just bought and trashed Twitter because that kid was tracking his plane

PilferJynx ,

Yeah… right.

zcd ,

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-BB1iaiQN

optissima ,
@optissima@lemmy.world avatar

Scapegoat excuse. Why would he admit that it was to destroy class awareness and cohesion, when he could simply blame a kid?

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

Taking the opportunity of being forced to buy it to create his very own propaganda machine.

PilferJynx ,

If you believe this then you’d believe in almost anything.

andrew_bidlaw ,
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

Would Swift be the next owner of Twitter then?

THE_MASTERMIND ,

I don’t think she is that rich. Is she ?

Thrashy , (edited )
@Thrashy@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, neither was he, and given that the Saudis bankrolled his purchase and he’s apparently reduced the value of their investment by half, you have to wonder what he’s giving them that has saved him from a one-way trip to a Saudi consulate.

I mean, you don’t really have to wonder that hard. But still, somebody loses you multiple billions in an extended ketamine-fueled rampage, you start to wonder if you should make an example of them…

THE_MASTERMIND ,

Man those articles suck especially the first one even with a hardened firefox and ublock

Kolrami ,

Why do people try to pretend Elon Musk isn’t insanely rich? His net worth can easily be leveraged into 40 billion dollars.

andrew_bidlaw ,
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

Alll i know is she’s pissed at the person tracking her flights like Elon was.

ElectroVagrant , (edited )

This service going down and me recently deciding to try to check in on whether some people I used to follow on Twitter had migrated elsewhere made me realize how much Twitter’s basically isolated itself from the open web.

A part of me hopes this serves as a wake-up call for those that were still hovering between using Twitter and weaning off it using services like this, to reach out to those they follow and let them know, “Hey, if you think you’re still posting publicly…You’re not, only other people here can see this.” For many people that may not matter, but for creators/influencers? I dunno, maybe network effect is enough that they feel the large audience there is plenty, but I’d think they might want as broad of a reach as possible, and a popular but limited view platform isn’t necessarily that.

Much more importantly though are any government/critical services. They really need to be brought up to date, if they haven’t been already, that the platform is no longer as publicly accessible as it may have once been. Also the same applies not just for Twitter but Facebook and the like as well, but that’s another topic.

SketchySeaBeast ,
@SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah, I can’t believe that governments and infrastructure services are still using it. I can, at best, see your single tweet, and odds are good I can’t see the most recent. It’s nuts that anyone would ever want to use that as a broad communication platform.

Asudox ,

The same shit as Reddit. Glory to Mastodon.

TokyoMonsterTrucker ,

That’s Xitter’s last dying gasp, for me. I have only accessed it through Nitter for many months now.

Yoz ,

Lol whos using Twitter ?

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Unfortunately, lots and lots of people

UnaSolaEstrellaLibre ,

Too many people/companies/governments depend on Twitter.

hal_5700X ,
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

Goodnight, Nitter. o7

citrusface ,

o7

threelonmusketeers ,

o7

lemmytellyousomething ,

A major German party (SPD) decided to quit using Twitter a few weeks ago.

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