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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.