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This is the only metric that matters to Reddit, so it's nice to see!
So they really are following Twitter's example. Twitter's lost 59% of ad revenue since Elon took over, now Reddit ad revenue is plummetting. It's stunning how stupid companies can be.
Just noticed today that Twitter requires one to log-in to read posts. It's like these two platforms are competing on which one can destroy their reputation first.
~~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 🙁
How does nitter work? Does it scrap the data, or use an API?
Web scraping and/or private API. It does not use the paid API.
It uses some undocumented API endpoints currently I believe :) not sure how this twitter fuckery is/will affect it
Nitter no longer works because sign in is required now.
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.
Edits, comments, etc can take a bit to shuffle through
No worries though, thank you for the clarification
Does nitter still work after the change with the forced login?
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.