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Change "twitter" to "twiiit" to get a random nitter instance: https://twiiit.com/bl4sty/status/1776691497506623562 https://twiiit.com/bl4sty/status/17766914975

• ethanwillis 3y ago
  No thanks, I support an open web.
  • beepbooptheory 3y ago
    You support the open web by stealing from the closed one!
    • Rodeoclash 3y ago
      I'm glad you get it!
    • int_19h 3y ago
      Hack the planet!
  • mkl 3y ago
    Ignoring the closed web is not the same as supporting the open web. I support whatever mirrors and tools get closed knowledge into the open. (Edited to remove snark.)
    • ethanwillis 3y ago
      And yet a short time later: "Instance has been rate limited. Use another instance or try again later."
    • kibwen 3y ago
      > Choosing ignorance over knowledge If there's some piece of knowledge that's absolutely, positively critical to my life, it will exist somewhere that actually matters, not on Twitter.
      • mkl 3y ago
        Sure, but almost no knowledge that is interesting, valuable, useful, etc., is absolutely, positively critical to your life. Almost nothing on HN has that level of importance, but you are here learning interesting things, and unfortunately the first place some of those things appear is still Twitter.
        • k8svet 3y ago
          Where does it end, fellow person? What is going to be the excuse/defense/workaround whenever Nitter instances are completely suffocated? Just suck it up and sign up so you can continue to participate on a increasingly hostile, toxic, manipulated platform in service of a narcasists deranged ego? Because Joe Bob Expert is too lazy to post elsewhere? No, I'm sorry, but when is enough, enough? I know I'm missing out on good content, and I don't care. I have _some_ self-respect.
      • k8svet 3y ago
        I don't even know if that's true, but I don't care. Twitter, at this point, is far more egregious than reddit, and I swore months ago I'd never contribute there. It blows my mind that people still play in Elon's piss-filled sandbox because they love the dopamine hits of bot-inflated engagement metrics. Yes, you casual reader that keeps posting on Twitter due to laziness and momemtum, I'm absolutely talking about you. Your laziness is hurting everyone. And I'm not alone, you're limiting your audience and prioritizing, well, people too lazy to get off Twitter, and ignoring the technical, prescient (observant, at this point?), informed crowd that have left for elsehwhere. /shrug
  • MBCook 3y ago
    The really stupid thing is you have to know you’re missing stuff. If you’re sent a random link you can’t tell if it’s a one-off or a 45 tweet thread. It looks open but it’s clearly not.
• jxyxfinite 3y ago
  I thought nitter was officially dead. Nice to see some instances are still working
• justinclift 3y ago
  Oh. Nitter didn't stop working a few weeks ago after all? Oops, now that's giving: Instance has been rate limited. Use another instance or try again later. So maybe "kind of working" is the better description. :)
• opello 3y ago
  Aren't all the nitter instances going to die with the anonymous guest account restrictions? I've not closely followed those developments.
• publius_0xf3 3y ago
  Wow, it works. But it's not random, afaict. I keep getting the privacydev instance. How do they keep theirs up and running?