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Annoying because I'm sure people will keep using the xird site and nitter was the only good way to use it. I still won't make an account though.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago

That sucks because Nitter is genuinely good software. Made Twitter feel extremely fast and lean, unlike the actual default website. Nitter defies the trend of most software today, particularly software from silicon valley companies.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Twitter finally shut off the free tier of their API. Shit’s rough.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

parses html with regex

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Ugh I’m having flashbacks of scraping with Beautiful Soup at my startup 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

this sucks but I expect a scraper version will come along to do the same thing while taxing Twitter's servers twice as hard.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shame, I'll probably just stop looking at Twitter altogether

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I have done this and my mental health improved.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the answers are a big "no" for each question but...

  1. Is there another alternative frontend?

  2. I don't understand the tech stuff. Has Elon killed off any possibility of a future good alternative front end?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

It apparently still works with personal accounts

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

That explains all rhe rate limiting all the sudden.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

I wonder if that's why it hasn't been working for me today. Regardless, that sucks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

The dev has said that before. But if this is it that sucks. It was a pretty good tool, and I'm sure they put a lot of work into something that the afrikaner just ruined for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Everybody's mental health will soon increase.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

the problem is nobody outside of like zoomers knows what a mastodon is. including the commies! why do they keep making Twitter accounts ffs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

for anyone looking for a more official confirmation from the actual dev: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1913362376

It's possible more workarounds will be found, but as of now it's not looking good.

These instances are still working for the moment:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Just giving more a reason not to waste time on that dying cesspool of a platform.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

bummer but hopefully ill be able to use my time more wisely now