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Yeah, but most of these will fall. I used to use one or two of these to scrape my friends' posts because I stopped using Twitter and they'd inevitably all disap
by arjie 1mo ago
Yeah, but most of these will fall. I used to use one or two of these to scrape my friends' posts because I stopped using Twitter and they'd inevitably all disappear in time. It's like chasing the latest TPB. In the end, I just logged in a headless browser and told an agent to fetch daily.
- done_lurking 1mo agoWhat is TPB?
- aidenn0 1mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
- sampullman 1mo agoThat's true, but TBP has been going pretty strong for over 2 decades. It can be hard to totally shut something down, if people want it.
- noduerme 1mo agoSadly, the music selection has fallen off a cliff, and the rest is in a sharply downward spiral... in one sense this is because the music industry finally settled on a streaming model that most people are willing to rent, and it's also because the new generation has been brainwashed or trained out of storing their own files.
- tosti 1mo agoIt's also because it's difficult to add your own magnet links.
- tancop 1mo agoIt's also because torrents are a bad fit for music. The whole protocol is designed for throughput and reliability on big downloads like movies and games, not fast start on 2MB files you don't need to split with today's broadband. A lot of uploaders still zip everything so you can't download one song out of some album. And the discoverability is shit because DHT doesn't let you ask peers for all their torrents so you need to run a server that index multiple trackers or look things up manually. The only alternative is Soulseek where it's a direct connection model instead of hash based. That means there are no stable IDs to get a file if the original uploader is down and users can send you anything they want like troll audio or malware. If we want people to start pirating music again we need to make the UX as good as Spotify. That means no explicit downloads, when you click play the app gets the file from a peer, saves it to a cache then starts playing and seeding automatically. Songs and albums should be content addressed in a global namespace instead of living on trackers, and there should probably be a reputation system. I think something based on iroh blobs for content and atproto for discovery can work.
- conradfr 1mo agoSoulseek is working fine. But to be honest I never found TPB (or rarbg etc.) really useful for music.
- apefulsin 1mo agoSoulseek is centralised, and censors searches in compliance with legal requests. If you connect to someone who has censored content, the central server can't stop you grabbing it, but you have to find them another way.
- noduerme 1mo agoSoulseek is great and reminiscent of the old BBS days. But it feels a lot more fragile than torrenting. 15 years ago, TPB was still a place you could get hard-to-find music. Now you are lucky to find a single person on soulseek with an album you're looking for.
- petcat 1mo ago> the new generation has been brainwashed or trained out of storing their own files. It has very little to do with this and more just about the ubiquitous availability of 5G and always-available streaming. I stopped caring about data hoarding once I could just access anything I wanted reliably wherever I was.
- hedora 1mo agoStreaming is getting worse fast. I basically just pay for curation, and AI slop is creating cracks in that model. Some of the musicians I like are getting crushed by sybil style attacks, where there are 10 new albums in their artist page, but only one is theirs. Fortunately, sending a screenshot to Claude tells me what to push in a minute or so, but, unfortunately, I can’t just hand it an API endpoint and have it scrub all this crap weekly. (No idea why the streaming service can’t just do that themselves, of course…) Of course, for movies, it’s gotten to the point where I just drive to the used DVD store. $1-5 per movie used (including blurays); $20-30 new. I usually walk out with a dozen or so films for $100. This is easier than tpb.
- noduerme 1mo agono, the ubiquity of 5G is what allowed you to be brainwashed into not storing your own files and using cloud storage or streaming for everything. It's kind of like water, food or electricity. You probably don't own a generator, don't keep lots of water or food stores in case things go down for awhile. You assume things will always work. Storage is dirt cheap insurance. 5G is a luxury that can go away at any moment, and doesn't exist on large parts of the planet. Even if it does, they can just remove something you "own" from your library.
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- Cider9986 1mo agoWdym "chasing the latest TPB"? Isn't 1337x and others better and offer a complete alternative? Twitter is different there's many stories that are only there.
- someonebaggy 1mo agoSwitching torrent sites every time one gets taken down. But why wouldn't you?
- papyrus9244 1mo ago> Isn't 1337x and others better and offer a complete alternative? The best way is always private trackers. They're easy to get into, easy to keep (if you're a serious and honest person), malware free, high quality content, great community, etc.
- troupo 1mo ago> The best way is always private trackers. They're easy to get into If they were easy to get into, they wouldn't be good
- papyrus9244 1mo agoIt's as easy as buying 1 month of seedbox for around 10 bucks.
- someonebaggy 1mo agoThey're all perfect substitutes. When one is down you can use another. They can't stop us all. I just wish there was a way to automatically redirect to a working instance.
- netniuq 1mo agoLibRedirect kind of does so, it's not 100% there yet https://libredirect.manerakai.com/ https://libredirect.manerakai.com/
- culi 1mo agoLove this extension. One stop shop and supports any custom alt front-end you want for any website you want. Usually they have all the major ones and are quick to update with mirrors when something goes down but allowing you to do it yourself is a great fallback
- jasonvorhe 1mo agoFound this Android app to work quite well. It just lacks working nitter instances right now but you can customize them: https://github.com/circumspace/linkahest https://github.com/circumspace/linkahest
- dredmorbius 1mo agoWhat doesn't work is posting a link to a specific Nitter instance with the expectation that that link will persist. Which is what HN has been doing for Twitter submissions for approximately two years: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22https%3A%2F%2Fxcancel.com%2F%22&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...> Those links are all now dead.
- done_lurking 1mo agoIt's inconvenient that the links are dead, but all the information needed to find the referenced information is still stored in the link. You just have to change the domain to a working instance.
- yoavm 1mo agoDid TPB ever change a domain? I've been using the .org domain listed on Wikipedia for as long as I can remember.
- stavros 1mo agoI made a small service that will redirect you to a working one: https://github.com/skorokithakis/detour https://github.com/skorokithakis/detour, running on https://twit.0r.cx https://twit.0r.cx. Just replace x.com with twit.0r.cx. Example: https://twit.0r.cx/Stavros/status/2096184846993314184 https://twit.0r.cx/Stavros/status/2096184846993314184
- 0points 1mo ago// ==UserScript== // @name Twitter Alternative // @description // @match *://*.x.com/* // @namespace TwitterRedir // @run-at document-start // ==/UserScript== window.location.replace("https://twit.0r.cx" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search);
- crtasm 1mo agoTIL ublock can do this (and won't have to wait for the initial response from x.com) - see the Tips section on https://twit.0r.cx https://twit.0r.cx
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- Leonard_of_Q 1mo agoThe solution is to run your own instance, create a few accounts for it to use and put it behind a reverse proxy with basic auth. Hand out logins to a few people and it will remain useable. If you put your instance out in the open it will sooner or later end up temporarily blocked - I tried this for a few years, same results every time - but smaller instances remain useable. It isn't hard to run an instance, just park it next to your SearXNG [1], Invidious [2], Redlib [3],PeerTube, ... instances. [1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng https://github.com/searxng/searxng [2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [3] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
- embedding-shape 1mo ago> It's like chasing the latest TPB. What do you mean? TPB been online and at the exact same URL (give or take some days/weeks around raids) for like two decades, and still has the same URL today. Might not be the same group, but not sure what "chasing" you're referring to?
- ahoka 1mo agoIt's distributing malware, do not use any of the "TPB" sites.
- embedding-shape 1mo agoLol, of course, it has since day 1, and will continue to do so. I don't think anyone use these piracy websites without being aware of the risks here.
- Brian_K_White 1mo agoIt's distributing everything, including things that aren't available any other way, and if you want the good you have to pluck it out of the bad. Living without the good just to avoid that is maybe one philosophy of life, but certainly not the only valid one.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1mo ago"They will inevitably all disappear in time." Years ago HN commenters were making the same comment when most Nitter instances were abandoned Meanwhile nitter.poast.org kept working for years Then xcancel.com appeared When there is no longer a method for an internet subscriber to read Twitter/X without the subscriber creating an account on Twitter/X (and "logging in"), then the subscriber can use a headless browser But that time has not yet come, and no HN commenter has succeeded in predicting when exactly that time will come The disappearance of "ad blockers" as browser extensions/add-ons may be "inevitable" Unlike Nitter, we don't see HN commenters trying to downplay their usefulness Free internet "services" disappear all the time, for a variety of reasons For example, https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- apefulsin 1mo ago> When there is no longer a method to read Twitter/X withoot logging in, then one can use a headless browser There isn't one. Nitter logs in.
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- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1mo ago"Nitter logs in." Nitter users don't
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1mo agoHN commenters prognosticating about Nitter are wrong yet again: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5...
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1mo ago"It's like chasing the latest TPB." 1780323401 | The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid | https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/ https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357154