So long, and thanks for all the fish I guess.
As you may guess, the death of #Nitter means that nitter.platypush.tech is down for good too.
Not only, but also all the Twitter->Mastodon forwarding bots I developed are now gone, as they leveraged Nitter's RSS feeds to get new content.
It's quite sad because, for how much I hate the way Twitter is being run, there are still some very interesting accounts that are only there, and I'll no longer be able to read their content on the Fediverse.
On the other hand, I also feel like the situation is much less dramatic now than it would have been if Twitter had shut down all their interfaces with the outside world one year ago. With one bad decision after the other, more and more of the accounts that I followed from Twitter have now moved to the Fediverse (or at least they have an official mirror). From Quanta Magazine, to the Economist, to the MIT.
The more Twitter assumes that it can get away with anything because it's unreplaceable, the more likely it is to be replaced.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
Fabio Manganiello /
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2023-07-01 00:07:36
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