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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 28, 2024

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The Motte automatically converts Twitter/X links into Nitter links, right?

Nitter is dead, and its replicas will die in less than 30 days.

Nitter currently relies on the mass generation of guest accounts, a weird anonymous form of account that was only supported by old versions of the Twitter app. Creation of them was totally disabled today, so every nitter instance will be dead in under 30 days (when they expire). Scrapers apparently also relied on this, as every public nitter instance was being hammered by scrapers earlier. Instances will probably shut down quite soon unless someone finds another way to create tens of thousands of accounts in an automated fashion for free.

(Note: This is a per-account setting, in the "Content" section.)

I don't think I opted out of the automatic nitter conversion when I created account, entirely possible I did.

Man this sucks, Twitter’s logged-out is probably the worst of any social media, even including Instagram and TikTok.

Insta has actually gotten much better recently. Yes, it still pesters you with account creation links, but lets you click through and load more images. I'd say Twitter, Pinterest and TikTok are the unholy trinity. And maybe Facebook itself as well, but thankfully people stopped posting Facebook links.