Comment by smoldesu

1 year ago

Maybe this is a good moment to reconsider the acceptance of X links on HN. If users without accounts have no way to read the content, why redirect people there en-masse?

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keb_  1 year ago

Yes. Please disallow X/Twitter links and stop forwarding traffic to that cursed user-hostile site.

defrost  1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154536

    I use a redirection extension to prepend "https://farside.link/_/" to certain domains.

For example:

    https://twitter.com/nasa

    …becomes:

https://farside.link/_/twitter.com/nasa

    The underscore adds an interstitial redirection page, so you can press Back to try another instance.

The above service redirects to Nitter which still appears to be working.

  • MallocVoidstar  1 year ago

    Nitter currently relies on the mass generation of guest accounts, a weird anonymous form of account that was only supported by old versions of the Twitter app. Creation of them was totally disabled today, so every nitter instance will be dead in under 30 days (when they expire). Scrapers apparently also relied on this, as every public nitter instance was being hammered by scrapers earlier. Instances will probably shut down quite soon unless someone finds another way to create tens of thousands of accounts in an automated fashion for free.

    • londons_explore  1 year ago

      I'm gonna guess that these guest accounts might be the reason 'usage is at an all time high' according to musk, but seems to be falling according to everyone else.

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