Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride: "tl;dr - Twitter blocked the last known way to access their network without a user account." [nitter.cz]

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[–]Drewski 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lame, aside from the privacy the Nitter UI is so much better than Twitter's bloated interface. The enshittification of big tech marches on. I'll probably spin up a personal instance like I do with teddit, though using them this way negates the privacy benefits. Archive.today still works and I'll continue posting a mirror with any Twitter links I share.

[–]detty 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This one and this one still work, though they both have issues with username searches.

[–]neolib[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, it looks like less popular instances will live a bit longer, but

If nothing changes, all remaining instances will go down eventually: Instances rely on guest accounts, which are valid for a certain time and of which you need a ton to run a public instance.

https://archive.is/otlgL

[–]In-the-clouds 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here's another: https://nitter.kylrth.com/

[–]neolib[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382590

[–]asterias 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Let's hope that more people will move to other platforms.

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Considering you can easily create an account with an anonymous burner e-mail, the only real purpose of Nitter was to harvest large amounts of data, e.g. to train an AI.

[–]PsychoTranyRedditMod 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I did that once upon a time, then years later, out of the blue, they demanded I confirm a long-gone burner e-mail to log in, and their support told me to f off.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

...so create another one. I don't see the problem.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

YouTube also did that. Even though I had the correct password, they locked me out of my account because I could no longer get into the email where they sent some confirmation link. They said it was for our safety.

[–]In-the-clouds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

an anonymous burner e-mail

Did you use an anonymous email service?

It is getting nearly impossible to create an email account the media giants will accept without supplying your phone number, which is linked to your name. From my experience, Instagram would not let me use my personal email account which is not tied to a phone number, and so they blocked me from using their service.

[–]Hematomato 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

For Twitter, I used an old hotmail account I've had since the '90s.

But sometimes I use protonmail.com for a burner address, and it tends to work fine.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I used an old hotmail account

I have one of those, too, which I rarely use anymore. Microsoft probably has an extensive history of my personal communications and it contains my identifiable information. They know who I am.

[–]Hematomato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure. I accepted the fact that corporations know a lot about me back in, you know, 2009.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

all my burner email twitter accounts got banned immediately so i stopped caring

[–]PsychoTranyRedditMod 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Didn't even know that was a thing. One reason why I never look at twatter is the retarded login wall.

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they recently removed the login wall partially, you can now see the posts an account makes e.g. https://twitter.com/whatcatsdid

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is that to just read stuff on twitter, and you can't post stuff?

[–]In-the-clouds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nitter also allowed for much faster page loads, while Twitter/X is bloated and slower to load.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Saidit needs something like that

[–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

https://nitter.net/ Still works for me. If you use a popular browser, you will probably see them try to block you from accessing it because of an outdated certificate. Isn't that annoying? Or is for "our safety"?

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's both!

[–]Budget-song-budget 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Upon clicking message reads:

Your connection is not private

Attackers might be trying to steal your information from nitter.net (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards). Find out more NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue

Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to nitter.net. The website is either misconfigured or your computer clock is set to the wrong time.

It’s likely the website’s certificate is expired, which prevents Firefox from connecting securely.

What can you do about it?

nitter.net has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem.

Learn more…

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

Is Firefox protecting you for "your safety" or are they blocking you from visiting websites you wanted to see? I never made financial transactions on nitter or Twitter and it's a public social-media, not secret communications, so I don't need them to tell me if the encryption certificate is up-to-date.

Older versions of Firefox gave the option to proceed anyway. Other older browsers still work with nitter.net.

u/Budget-song-budget posted something similar.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Firefox went downhill ever since 3.6.3