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.
This is from posting pretty much solely on #MECFS , #LongCovid and related conditions and to a lesser extent chronic illness in general, which shows it is possible to build up followings on them, in case people either gave up on them or never tried.
@tomkindlon@longcovid@mecfs As someone with #fibromyalgia I find that we're mostly forgotten in the chronic illness community. While I would love to connect more, I have stopped talking about it because it's considered the "hysteria" of the modern era. I have some unique theories on what caused mine. But there is a much larger community around some illnesses than others.
Getting a larger number of followers is helpful when you're trying to provide information about an illness (ME/CFS, myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome) that affects millions of people but is still not very well known. ME/CFS is often is not even taught in medical schools.
An #MEAction advocacy campaign called "Teach M.E., Treat M.E." is trying to correct this problem:
Inzwischen ist mir klar, dass ich zwar nicht immer fair diskutiere, das Entgleisen von Gesprächen aber nicht von mir kommt.
Und damit habe ich meine Ruhe gefunden.
Russia's Medvedev published a lengthy threat to NATO countries and "Former Ukraine", as he calls it.
Russia always increases threats when Ukraine's Allies make decisions that will directly impact the course of the war. That is a clear sign that the decision is right!
I'm not exactly sure how it's happened, but it's pretty cool I can see Bluesky accounts talking on here.
It seems a shared interest in the misfortunes of the Nazi Bar has bridged the technical divide somewhere. #Twitter#Mastodon#Bluesky
@Lazarou One very hardworking open source developer (not affiliated with Bluesky) made a "bridge" thing which let people post from one side to the other (basically it creates kind of "mirror" accounts on the other side which clone the posts, translating links, mentions etc.): https://snarfed.org/2024-05-04_52915