He is also the admin of Poast, which is a reactionary instance on the Fediverse, reactionary to the point where even MSM had articles about it.
Needless to say, I'm going to use another Nitter instance (nitter.esmailelbob.xyz) and I would encourage others to do the same. Here's a list of Nitter instances: https://status.d420.de/in case nitter.esmailelbob.xyz turns out to suck as well.
Edit: Damn, it turns out esmailelbob sucks as well lol
I stopping using that and trusting that site about a month ago. As far I know - I tried all the instances repeatedly - nitter.poast.org was and is the only working instance.
nitter.privacydev.net was very healthy or fully healthy when I checked the status but it I entirely gave up on it ~2 months ago. For weeks on end it never worked.
Oh snap, I didn't know. I shared a link or two from there when people were asking for non Twitter links because I thought it was literally the only instance left.
Twitter prevented the creation of guest instances, which was how nitter was working. Nitter could still be used by routing the traffic through actual accounts but no one wanted to deal with the hassle of that, especially when the boer could just shut it down.
What stops anyone from putting up a view tumbling nitter instance that automates history deletion and uses the history deleted users id as one in a list of ids it uses to access the tweets?
E: with user consent, of course. People should know they’re exchanging history deletion for use of their account in an ad-view tumbling data poisoning operation.