Since Twitter was bought by the world’s biggest manbaby I’ve been using Nitter to avoid giving them any traffic/analytics/etc.
Full list of Nitter instances here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Pretty sure its hanging on by a thread due to all the changes Musk keeps making
I use the LibRedirect for various sites and half the time it either doesn’t load Tweets or it comes up with a page that Nitter was flagged for serving illegal content.
Kinda sad the RSS functionality got killed
I don’t really grok products like this.
If you have a fundamental disagreement with a platform, continuing to engage with it, even through a condom, is still perpetuating it. It’s maintaining that platform as still important and integral, and a place that others should continue to engage with. It’s telling advertisers that it’s still a place that’s worth their money to maintain a presence on. It stymies the momentum in shifting to an alternative; why put the effort into a new service if people are still seeing your posts?
It’s like pirating Windows instead of moving to a different OS. You’re still perpetuating the MS hegemony and telling software developers that Windows is the platform they need to develop for.
The analogy of simply choosing different software doesn’t apply here. Because I can switch my os or calculator app. Those choices don’t depend on other people. Sadly, we still depend on being able to read content that other parties we care for still publish on Twitter even though I disagree with it as a to. Maybe they do or dont care. I can disagree with Twitter and like my influencers. For that, something like nitter is a good step in the direction. I want to move. As muchas I’d like to snap my fingers and have everyone into my network of personal choice. It cannot happen.
Sadly, we still depend on being able to read content that other parties we care for still publish on Twitter even though I disagree with it as a to. Maybe they do or dont care. I can disagree with Twitter and like my influencers.
As somebody who still has to check Reddit from time to time because of the vast amount of content there, I totally see your point. But don’t influencers nowadays use everything possible? If you don’t like Instagram, follow them on Tiktok/Youtube, if you don’t like Twitter, follow them on Threads.
I used influencers as an example, that’s true that they’re everywhere. But there’s many communities I follow that don’t care about Twitter politics, and they got little interest or even information to consider moving elsewhere.
If you have a fundamental disagreement with a platform, continuing to engage with it, even through
No it doesn’t.
It’s telling advertisers that it’s still a place that’s worth their money to maintain a presence on.
Advertisers typically want people to actually see their ads. That doesn’t happen with Nitter.
The unfortunate reality is that hundreds of millions of people continue to use Twitter. So long as the fucking President is on there, among others, so must we be. Important conversations happen there that drive the direction of our country and the world. So while I wish I could close my eyes and pretend they aren’t, that’s just not reality.
