Nitter is not dead. The alternative twitter/x front-end,is still working. Yes, now there are just a few public instances (nitter.poast.org is one of them), but with just a basic linux and docker knowledge you can self-host your own private instance.
@outofcontrol there's a default option using iframes (3 dots on post -> embed), there's support for oEmbed and there are other 3rd party solutions to achieve similar results
I don’t know why there are accounts linking to twitter/X posts on Mastodon. That shit will turn people off to your content around here. Most of us left that. It’s fine if you want to repost content on both platforms but stop linking to Twitter on mastodon. Learn that we are different and separate communities and how we interact.
@x00001 I mean that’s acceptable, but I’m talking about the people just blatantly trying to get you to see posts inside of Twitter that there’s really no reason to.
Click on link to read a tweet. Get the following page which not only contains my favorite warning (the disable privacy settings which means your site is doing something bad) but also a mysterious square in the corner that does nothing. Oh also retry does nothing.
Remember when the executive world was calling Musk a genius for firing everyone because the site didn’t immediately break? Sure seems amazing now. #twitter#elonmusktwitter
It's also great that I'm still reading about whether the fediverse will continue to work in tech news while I guess we're just all skipping that twitter is now effectively broken.
At this point, Twitter and BlueSky are virtually identical, except there's a bit more public info about users. So maybe it's worse? In any event, the whole plan all along was to create the illusion of difference and "starting over" by simply swapping a platform. Fascinating how gullible most people are.
I feel increasingly angry/frustrated at how academic conferences insist we 'join them on XTwitter' to follow the conf. Why should we have to do that? Why arent they providing an open social web alternative? Why are they so beholden to private monopoly Big Tech? This happened recently for the Networked Learning Conference, an initiative that claims to be dedicated to open networks of learning. How can they possibly think it is ethically acceptable to only use XTwtr?