Notices by Walop (walop@sauna.social)

@lain
Remember when before ubiquitous Internet we thought the problem was that people did not have the access to information?
Yeah, it also turned out not to be the root problem.

Nitter is shutting down as all the possible avenues of retrieving messages have been effectively blocked

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1913362376

#nitter #twitter #xitter #twiX

@feditips It is really hard to assess the reliability of servers. The first I signed on had been running for few years, had the covenant, had very sensible and agreeable rules. And a month after I found out the administrator had been having heated arguments for a while and suddenly just removed the covenant and rules and announced the instance will be shut down in a few weeks.

I don't blame people choosing the largest ones because they don't know about or can't make sense of the alternatives. It's like the early days of webmail, when I had to make a new account yearly because the previous one shut down. Except now migrating is a lot bigger deal because there's more value in the content you're leaving behind and you have shared the account to more places.