Fun read on the tyranny of “enlightenment”
(twitter.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (31)
sorted by:
Thanks, that'll help me a lot trying to keep archives.
You can also use a nitter instance that still works (xcancel.com, nitter.poast.org) and archive that - although that won't work for longer threads, it eventually collapses them after like maybe 20 posts. It's good for capturing at least some replies to single tweets though.
But anyway, you're not new here, you really didn't know about that? I know Ghostarchive.org is pretty obscure (I actually found out about it when that tranny janny Bardfinn kept using it), but Threadreaderapp has been around for years, smh
Didn't know there were still Nitters around that worked. 20 posts is still WAY better than the trash you get on Twitter's own website.
I think I've vaguely heard about it, but I never considered it a viable alternative. I used Nitter for archiving threads for a while. But if this is the one I'm thinking about, it only archives the stuff posted by the guy himself, when I am interested in getting the context for replied and the like. That is more useful as ammunition.
Yeah the Threadreader is really just for threads, it doesn't capture any replies. Nitter and Ghostarchive do that.
So an archive of a thread unrolled by TRA looks like this: https://archive.is/znrBS
A Ghostarchive of a thread looks like this: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/SYuCV - captures replies as well
And a Ghostarchive of a single tweet looks like this: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/TtGaQ - also with replies
Note that Nitter instances nor TRA are not actually archives, they will error out if the source tweet disappears, you still need to archive them somewhere. It's particularly stupid with TRA, it would be easier to just scrape the thread and save it locally instead of loading it from twitter every time since they don't care about replies, but maybe it has something to do with copyright law, I have no idea.
Also, Ghostarchive has the big advantage of not driving me fucking insane with captchas. Archive.today gives me a shitty fucking captcha nearly every time I try to either archive something or view an archive, and I'm getting to the point where I want to run whoever owns it with a bus, beat him to death with a bicycle, and impale him on a fucking fire hydrant next to a flight of stairs. Jesus fucking Christ. That's why I occasionally shill it, I wish people would switch from .today.