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Re:RIP Nitter by neltnerb on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:27PM (#36542558)
And people said I was being a Luddite for saying "just copy the text or take a screenshot", that's a lot of "news" articles at this point.

Definitely disturbing that journalists (especially) figured it was good archival practice to rely on the Twitter API in providing context.

For years, if I didn't enable twitter's javascript, news articles are missing images and quotes, obviously so. It's embarrassing, I honestly don't know how they recover from this, I don't know why they kept relying on Twitter embedding when screenshots and copy/paste work better and don't break.

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Re:RIP Nitter by CatWChainsaw on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:33PM (#36542621)
I grew up with the practice of never putting more of my life in the digital world than necessary. Given the recent Amazon smarthome snafu I don't see a reason to change.

Very innovation, many progress.

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