Xitter Broke Nitter Again (opens in new tab)

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76 pointsjoos32y ago18 comments

18 comments

Bummer, Zedeus just got Nitter fixed up like 2 weeks ago. Seems they keep turning off apis.

I finally removed processing of two Xitter-to-RSS (a once great function of nitter) feeds from my crontab, I know when I'm not welcomed.

PedroBatista2y ago

It's bad enough for your project to depend on a social media company, now imagine the company it's also run by an unhinged man-boy billionaire that's bored every 5min..

Alternative front-ends for big web sites are always a thankless job. At least everybody involved knows how these things end. ( I hope they know.. )

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zamalek2y ago

This has me thinking: given all of this, are public American officials therefore allowed to use Xitter? Presidential etc. speech is supposed to be archive-able, and placing it behind not only a sign-in, but also a $42069 (or whatever dumb figure Musk has dreamed up for API access) fee is problematic.

mgiannopoulos2y ago

Facebook is not easily archiveable either, is it? Somehow it seems like some questions (like about browsing without a login) are only being made about Twitter.

phyrex2y ago

Facebook lets you export all your data iirc. I haven’t tried it but I’d assume that would work for that case

schnable2y ago

There are so many ways POTUS tweets can be archived irrespective of general Twitter/X policies.

numpad02y ago

I'm starting to wonder if the real value prop of Twitter, subconsciously recognized and agreed by users, is that some suckers are paying out of pocket for it, as opposed to the community having tractions and such and such valuable aspects.

BasedAnon2y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter

ricc2y ago

Took me a while to recognise that Xitter is a portmanteau of X and Twitter. How is it pronounced then? "Sitter"? "S*itter"?

_bz2r2y ago

Xitter, where you post your xarts

azangru2y ago

Xitter is pronounced as outhouse, right?

dspillett2y ago

That is how I've been saying it.

I think usually where X is used as the initial latter the pronunciation is more like zh or zj than sh, but close enough.

andyjohnson02y ago

Maybe time to end it? Twitter is no longer a well behaved service, and its only going to get worse.

bhouston2y ago

Yeah, I refrain from posting on Sh/X-itter as much as possible. The combination of Threads + Mastodon is pretty decent.

lemper2y ago

definitely agree. there are many other ways to connect to people.

zokier2y ago

X hasn't been well-behaved as long as Nitter has existed, it's crappiness is arguably the raison d'etre for Nitter.

rvz2y ago

Unofficial third-party apps, sites, etc will always be playing the cat-and-mouse game and will always be behind whatever change the first party service makes.

By default, Nitter has always been in a losing position in both maintenance and catching up in implementing the missing new features years before the Twitter acquisition.

This also isn't unique to X / Twitter.

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