Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternatives?

Re:Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternat... by INTPenis on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:46PM (#39388545)

libreddit is suffering the same problem. Some instances are still working but they're probably switching outgoing IPs often to evade the ban hammer.

As others have noted, I think this is part of a larger trend. All websites have realized that data is power, data is money, and they don't want to share anymore.

I used to host both nitter and libreddit, now I host neither of them. I've simply given up on reading that data.

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Re:Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternat... by based_gigachad2 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:15PM (#39389906)

There's a fork of LibReddit called RedLib which should work better: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#libr...

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Re:Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternat... by INTPenis on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:25PM (#39390058)

Why would it work better when reddit are blocking IPs? It's an arms race you can't win in the long run.

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Re:Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today, alternat... by sodality2 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @09:21PM (#39392333)

It is working better because previously Reddit was blocking IPs from accessing the JSON endpoints, but Redlib doesn’t use those anymore, we emulate an official client, which currently doesn’t have any kind of IP blocking (they don’t want to ban any mobile VPN users probably).

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