Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

• nitter

  180 9,629 6.0 Nim

  Alternative Twitter front-end

  Nothing about this requires blockchain. There are plenty of Twitter archive sites like nitter.net that are not only open source, but also have plenty[0] of distributed instances on good old "web 2."

  [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

• Mastodon

  164 45,826 10.0 Ruby

  Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  

  This vision doesn't require blockchain whatsoever.

  Mastodon[0] is a successful decentralized social media without the use of blockchain. Because of federation, users can like and reply to posts from other instances, and other people will be able to see it.

  I can even follow a PeerTube channel and have recent videos show up in my feed, because of the ActivityPub federation protocol (a W3C standard).

  Best of all, it doesn't require the linking of a crypto wallet and the payment of cryptocurrency to interact with people.

  [0] https://joinmastodon.org/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• NetNewsWire

  5 7,842 9.3 Swift

  RSS reader for macOS and iOS.

  

• fe-alts

  0 2 0.0 JavaScript

  Opt out of Twitter, Medium, Invidious, Reddit, and Instagram front-ends with a single Docker Compose

  Plugging my fe-alts repo [1], a way to launch your own instances of alternative website front-ends. Includes nitter (twitter) invidious (youtube) bibliogram (instagram) scribe (medium) and teddit (reddit). You can launch and configure them all with a single docker-compose, and since they are your own instances, there are no rate limits. They also support RSS.

  My life has substantially improved once I replaced default front-ends

  [1] https://github.com/jarbus/fe-alts

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