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Just a reminder that nitter exists, which lets you browse twitter without needing an account, from a minimal ui and having everything proxied through the instance of choice for privacy. You can use the libredirect firefox addon to automatically redirect twitter (& optionally other services like youtube/reddit, etc to its frontend like nitter).
You can view a list of instances here.
edit: ... wow it looks like nitter's also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip..
Shit filtered through a fine cloth is still shit.
Works now, though I don't know what nitter.net's method of obtaining Tweet data is, and wouldn't be terribly surprised if Twitter intends to crack down on that, sooner or later.
STOP USING GITHUB
why?
This shouldn't even be a question. IT IS CONTROLLED BY MICROSOFT
it is a tool that they are using to embrace, extend, extinguish the free software movement, something they've been doing for more than a few decades now.
Github doesn't care about the content posted on there until they get a dmca to take it down, or if the content's illegal, in which case any large company would've done the same. If you've got a specific example of censorship, which wasn't justifiably removed, feel free to share.
Heck, i saw a popular github repo containing an activation script for windows a while back, and it looks like its still up. It has almost 37k stars.. Which literally proves microsoft doesn't give a damn.
Now on the contrary, i absolutely hate things like codeberg, gitlab, sr.ht, sourceforge and the 2 trillion selfhosted gitlab instances to exist. I want to contribute to software or quickly report an issue? screw having to signup to a trillion services, and then waiting for my account to be accepted, because people can't decide on one platform to share code. It disincentivizes collaboration if anything. Github's already got a massive userbase, just stick with github, there's nothing wrong with it.