• Binkie55
    2·
    2 years ago

    it just says this

    Nitter is currently unavailable due to illegal content

    • Aria
      5·
      2 years ago

      What makes it obsolete? I still use Nitter. Regular Twitter kicks you out if you load more tweets and they don’t recognise you.

    • mrshll1001
      5·
      2 years ago

      In what way is it obsolete? Nitter provides a lightweight front-end to social media content which is otherwise on a hostile user interface (ie javascript-laden, tracker-filled, slow, heavy). It makes twitter content more viewable for people on slower internet connections and it generates a clearly-signposted RSS feed for the twitter account you’re viewing, so you can subscribe using your RSS reader.

      Nitter stands up there with Teddit for Reddit, Proxitok for TikTok, and Scribe for Medium as a great way to view popular websites without loading their hostile javascript and interface dark patterns.

      Edit: added links to projects and corrected spelling of Scribe

      • thetablesareorange
        1·
        2 years ago

        its like a way to see a website without being tracked so some people use it to view its where its banned or some use it to just get rid of popup ads

        • Arsen6331 ☭
          3·
          2 years ago

          It’s not really a “hacker portal”. It’s an alternative frontend. In the software industry, a frontend is the part of a piece of software that the user interacts with, so Nitter is just a frontend that interfaces with Twitter’s backend (the part of a piece of software that the user doesn’t see). Of course, this is an oversimplification, but this has nothing to do with hacking or anything of the sort. It’s just an alternative UI for Twitter.

  • DAGromov
    2·
    2 years ago

    The tweet seems to have gone. Not sure what’s going on with nitter.it

    But you can use another nitter instance to access the user like nitter.pussthecat.org

    Edit: I was wrong, tweet is up. Nitter isn’t functioning well

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    note that this is not related to the specific tweet being linked to; nitter.it is currently sending this HTTP 451 in response to every URL:

    (as other comments in this thread have pointed out, the particular tweet in OP’s link is still on twitter and still available via other nitter instances)