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This to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in. There
by jmclnx 18d ago
This to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in.
There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities.
This comment also applies to facebook too, which I think is even worse than twitter.
- DaedalusII 18d agobut how to do that without protecting the content from enemy LLM companies scraping?
- jasonlotito 18d agoOn the off chance someone thinks this is serious, being locked behind a login doesn't prevent your site from being scraped.
- amiga386 18d agoIndeed, the shitter authors recommended you buy a bundle of Twitter accounts with 2FA details when setting up your own instance, to avoid getting rate-limited. There are millions of accounts for sale, roughly $0.10 per account. https://hstockplus.com/accounts/twitter-x-accounts?sortBy=price-low https://hstockplus.com/accounts/twitter-x-accounts?sortBy=pr...
- zImPatrick 18d agoThis wasn‘t recommended officially by the authors, right? I saw it on someone‘s codeberg fork but not on the official repo
- amiga386 18d agoSure, let's say shitter's authors: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Creating-session-tokens https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Creating-session-...
- immibis2 18d agoalso, public broadcasts should be scraped as much as possible
- forestingfisher 18d agoWe used to have that, it was called a blog. I used to subscribe to all my local politicians and journalist blogs back in the late 2000s and would recieve everything I needed in my inbox, but now everyone posts on Twitter. That's where we have ActivityPub.
- throw_m239339 18d ago> There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities. RSS.