Comment by RankingMember
2 years ago
imo hackernews should just automatically replace twitter.com with nitter.net even if just for readability without logging in's sake:
2 years ago
imo hackernews should just automatically replace twitter.com with nitter.net even if just for readability without logging in's sake:
And reddit links with old reddit.
The Harmonic HN reader for Android does this
Uhm nope , atleast not the one on playstore , is it there somewhere in the settings ?
Oooh yes , found it in the settings
We should just learn to ignore people still posting on Twitter (which is called something else now).
I'm still posting on Twitter because the people I'm trying to reach are still there and the alternatives never materialised.
Then you are still part of the problem.
Besides, if you're trying to reach the people who remain on Twitter, that says a decent amount about you.
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This is from last year.
Is nitter.net still functional for you? The service was accessible earlier this year from my location but now it is all 403 Forbidden.
nitter.net is, the mirrors are not.
iirc, twitter turned off all anonymous access, unless you come from a search engine, then you get a limit number of requests. So zedeus came up with an idea to make a massive pool of search engine'd api tokens and use those to keep nitter up. The mirrors would have to copy that idea, and few (0?) have atm.
The current state is to use guest accounts [1]. If you use that branch instead of master and get a collection of accounts, you can run your own instance. For my personal use instance this is working fine with the initial set of accounts I put in. No idea how long this will work and/or when it is going to get merged, it is a moving target.
I think the token workaround you mentioned is the old way that no longer works, but I am not sure.
[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/985