@jsto I admit this is a surprise, but fuck that hellscape. I’ve been content without it.
It does however mean that when @th3j35t3r posts bird site links, I won’t know what’s up. I mean, I don’t usually know what’s up, but now even less so.
@MookyTroubadour @jsto @th3j35t3r
PSA:
Libredirect add-on (firefox) plus Nitter helps for that use case.
The add-on intercepts Twitter and other social media site requests and goes instead to Nitter/Invidious/etc.
It will suggest Nitter instances or you can bring your own.
Hope it helps
@b4cks4w hi! thank you for writing! can’t hurt to look. does it work around the new log-in wall?
@jsto Yeah, I think Nitter is distributed, so multiple instances, and I presume each one provides authentication as needed. I should check!
Caveat: some instances are better than others, had to try a few.
Anyway it works, see:
https://nitter.poast.org/i/lists/1498457571216134144
@b4cks4w I do see!
@jsto dangit the nitter links are failing. Fingers crossed it's a glitch, but have a bad feeling...
@b4cks4w I noticed just before you sent this but I was too new to it to know if that was something that happens sometimes or likely to indicate a change. we shall watch together
@MookyTroubadour @th3j35t3r absolutely. I was begrudgingly still looking at a few Twitter pages that had info I couldn’t get elsewhere. Some scientists and science orgs are still there, as well as a couple of disinfo reporters who IMO even in their unique position should have left by now but were reporting on the titanic sinking from the deck