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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] rookie 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

~~nitter.net is a good mirror, I have an extension called LibRedirect that sends me there automatically instead of twitter. no need to login just to read a single tweet or something that way 🙂~~

edit: sorry for the misinformation, I'd just woken up at the time and definitely misread - I didn't realize twitter had made the change today from needing an account to click around to needing one to view anything at all. Nitter doesn't seem to work anymore 🙁

[–] nul9o9 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does nitter work? Does it scrap the data, or use an API?

[–] ipha 3 points 1 year ago

Web scraping and/or private API. It does not use the paid API.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It uses some undocumented API endpoints currently I believe :) not sure how this twitter fuckery is/will affect it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nitter no longer works because sign in is required now.

[–] rookie 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hm, do edits not propagate through federated instances? I edited that comment an hour or two after posting when I realized, but I've had several replies today that seem to be based on the original version, all from users on different instances.

~~nitter.net is a good mirror, I have an extension called LibRedirect that sends me there automatically instead of twitter. no need to login just to read a single tweet or something that way 🙂~~

edit: sorry for the misinformation, I'd just woken up at the time and definitely misread - I didn't realize twitter had made the change today from needing an account to click around to needing one to view anything at all. Nitter doesn't seem to work anymore 🙁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Edits, comments, etc can take a bit to shuffle through

No worries though, thank you for the clarification

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Does nitter still work after the change with the forced login?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is it still working today? Can't seem to find anything. Not that it matters much to me, I only went for vgdunkey's tweets for the most part.