Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

MostlyStable 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.

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corvad 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess X never heard of the Streisand effect...

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agnosticmantis 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Any user scripts that automatically redirect to a working instance?

	▲	ranger_danger an hour ago \| parent [-]
		https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

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add-sub-mul-div 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.

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delichon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> quarantines for the Eternal September population

Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic. About a decade after Eternal September started, but not bad.

	▲	randallsquared 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
	▲	defrost 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		FWiW as an aside, it appears to count votes from December 2008 accounts (as just tested using this 2008-12-26 account). So that's at least strictly before 2009.

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Petersipoi 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years

	▲	bigbadfeline 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> a bunch of broken links in a few years Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.
	▲	dadoum 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They would become links with only a wrong domain, so I am not very worried about that personally.