- cross-posted to:
- technology@hexbear.net
- privacy@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@hexbear.net
- privacy@lemmy.world
And with that, some questions.
Should I sign up for Twitter for news? Or should I say ‘Fuck Elon’ and not get a Twitter?
I get most of my news from Hexbear anyway.
Also, I have a Telegram. What news sources does Hexbear recommend on Telegram?
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IDK what news you could possibly get from Twitter that isn’t better anywhere else, unless you’re literally following a rando who only posts on Twitter.
The point of Nitter was for its RSS feeds. Not all news sites have RSS feeds set up. Now you’re stuck with setting up RSS feeds for their Telegram or Youtube channel if they have them.
Queer law news that isn’t published elsewhere. First hand witnesses, court docs, people whose job it is to follow cases across the 50 states.
Nitter still works somewhat if you only use instances that are listed as healthy at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public.
Alternatively, if you use the LibRedirect Firefox addon, you can simply go to the Twitter section, click Ping instances, and only add instances that come back as healthy as favorite instances.
According to the comments they’ll only work for up to the next 30 days
Currently, Nitter uses guest accounts to access content on Twitter. Guest accounts expire after 30 days (IIRC) of them being created. Guest account creation has been shut off, so all existing guest accounts will be dead after 30 days max. Nitter instances with working guest accounts are not dead yet, but they will be.
Fuck Elon and don’t play his game. Let it rot.
the telegram Q might be better answered in the news mega, they seem to know all that stuff in great detail
But yeah, I’m kinda in the same boat but I will never sign up for twitter lmao. I’m holding on to nitter.privacydev.net and any other working nitter as long as I can (I don’t browse but sometimes its nice to be able to follow links from here). Someone in the github seems to think privacydev is using tokens from real twitter accounts so it might not be affected by the end of guest accounts. If the crypto spammers can farm accounts, then nitter can too, right? lol
maybe I’ll see if I can’t browse tweets with archive.org when/if that fails
If there’s a way to automate account creation and deletion maybe it’s possible to use real accounts in the way that guest accounts are currently being used. Just rotate out every 30 days?
no reason to rotate them out unless they get banned tbh, older accounts are probably more trusted
I think automating account creation will be challenging, but you could probably automate activity that keeps them from getting instabanned (apparently even genuine accounts can get banned for lurker behavior basically) but I do wonder how many accounts you really need to run an instance. If its not that many and they don’t get banned that often you could have actual humans do the captchas and legwork to register them and then hand the tokens off to nitter/activity bots.
Rotation would just be for privacy measures as that way any analytics tied to the account get dumped.
I wonder how the bot farms automate it, there’s clearly a way they do it unless they actually have teams of people manually creating accounts. Even then based on user load there’s only so many that would actually need to be made.
for a public instance I don’t think that measure is needed, since dozens or hundreds of random people’s traffic is aggregated together, and ideally each user would also have a bunch of public instances and use a different one each time (thats what Libredirect does) further diluting the pool
That’s the approach the Ad Nauseam extension takes, I guess at scale on a public instance it could work well enough
You to Twitter as a Roman would go to the Colosseum
Musk or news doesn’t really enter into ithe discussion of why to use it or not
Okay, I will count that as ‘no’.
Damn rest in peace nitter.
Idk if it would work for you but I just get all my news from here and Internet Today. They usually just stick to pop culture news so you aint usually gonna learn anything super important from them. I’ve been watching since they were ETC show with Machinima and they are the only point of stability in my life.
On one hand I’m sad its harder for me to look at the two accounts I like, on the other I know it was unhealthy for me to be scrolling so much when I checked them
Should I sign up for Twitter for news? no
Whats wrong with checking sites like the BBC, Associated Press etc? That’s where 99% of all news is from.
Whats wrong with checking sites like the BBC, Associated Press etc?
So much neolib spin that it can power the turbines at Hoover Dam. I can really trust a word they say. Same goes for Fox News, except that it’s chud shit.
I tend to read from multiple sources but Hexbear is convenient because it aggregates the sources together. I was thinking similar might be there for Telegram.
…but ultimately sites like this, twitter etc get their news from places like the BBC …and you know the right constantly accuses the BBC of far-left bias?
Most alternative media also regurgitates and spins these sources anyway. The novelty of citizen journalism has turned out to be euphemistic for grifts and fake news.
Concerns about bias in news feel almost quaint like the faux news days compared to the dead web theory of today. Telling somebody to check out gray zone, telesur or cgtn as if they will get the “good stuff” and change their minds seems so self defeating.
nitter.lanterne-rouge.info is still up… for now.
I literally have never used twitter. I do not see the appeal. It is 2024 and I am a zoomer. I am not going to the website that used to be a bunch of smug millennials journalists complaining about adulting and is currently just Nazis.
Get a mastodon if u care abt news. And also probably telegram.
Get a mastodon if u care abt news. And also probably telegram.
Kinda got that covered. Like I said, I have a Telegram account. And I have a Mastodon account via toots.matapacos.dog. Same username as Hexbear.
But I need to know who to follow on Mastodon, besides Dril.
Lol no Twitter is not worth it for news imo
