Edit: Nitter’s back!
Hey, community.
As some of you probably know, FOSSware has instances for the popular, privacy-respecting front-ends for Reddit, Twitter and YouTube, called Teddit, Nitter and Piped.
Teddit and Piped don’t use any kind of official API to get the content off the respective websites, so they continue to work, even after Reddit’s API restrictions that went in place today. It’s a different story with Twitter. Interested folks may track the GitHub issue here.
This shows once again that the decentralized approach is the better one. Let’s take the matter into our own hands and use Lemmy, KBin, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Peertube, Calckey, etc.
The future is now, old man.
✌️
The others still work because you can scrape from the website, in particular without being logged in. Twitter just changed to requiring logins.
Reddit will likely follow soon after, given how Steve Huffman’s nose is turning gradually more brown, with a musky scent.
YouTube has been gradually shifting this way, but the arms race there has been more pronounced, with plenty of initiatives working at getting around it (eg NewPipe).