I am not a fan of Twitter, but sometimes I would like to visit a Twitter profile, unfortunately due to Twitter restrictions it is currently not possible to view anything without an account, and clearly I am not going to create a Twitter account for that, are there any forks in development that are trying to solve these Twitter problems? I remember reading about a fork that uses fake accounts to access the API, but I don’t know if this fork is still in development or if there are others.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    111·
    6 months ago

    The hidden content is a blessing in disguise. Consider it a walled garden that no longer is important in the scheme of things.

    Just like you wouldn’t click on a MySpace or Geocities link today, and like Reddit, Xitter is yet another site that came and went.

    • Xirup@yiffit.netOPEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Believe me, I hate Twitter, the only reason I sometimes tend to use it is because there are certain artists who have not migrated to Mastodon and I doubt they ever will, and often the only way to keep up with their work is via Twitter, or sometimes to their streamings, although I do not like the streams I must admit that the streams of artists you learn many things, such as drawing techniques among other things.

      • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        Yeah to me xitter is still a viable news source from certain journalists. Also just having friends send meme threads or whatever is annoying when you can’t read it.

        I’ve found that some of the nitter mirrors still work every so often when their rate limits reset but it’s not ideal - https://nitter.privacydev.net/

        Unfortunately I can’t see an obvious way that a fork of nitter would not encounter the same issues with the xitter API aggressively blocking/limiting scraping and GET requests.

        • Rose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          At least Gibson also posts on Mastodon from time to time, which can’t be said about most of the others. There are some working proxies like bird.makeup but the feeds aren’t updated immediately. The federated Threads accounts are probably the next best.