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I was surprised to see this here, because I remembered I recently added 3blue1brown on bsky:

https://bsky.app/profile/3blue1brown.bsky.social

...but he only posted this to Twitter. Not his own blog, nor bsky, not to his Patreon, or to Reddit - only Twitter. Nitter is always just going to be an echo of Twitter. Discord and Reddit and HN and a personal blog serve different purposes. Bsky and Mastodon and the rest (including Threads) are doomed to never become the next Twitter unless we can get people to start changing their habits.

I think just not engaging with content on Twitter is far more likely to produce that outcome than consuming the content on Nitter.



> Nitter is always just going to be an echo of Twitter.

Nitter is not going to be an echo of twitter, it was a proxy for twitter, and it's already dead.

> Bsky and Mastodon and the rest (including Threads) are doomed to never become the next Twitter unless we can get people to start changing their habits.

Why should anyone be concerned about that? None of the above have shown themselves to be any better stewards of anything than twitter has. They're all objectively mediocre options, (including twitter) and personally identifying with any of them is silly.


> Nitter is not going to be an echo of twitter, it was a proxy for twitter, and it's already dead.

It's not dead, xcancel runs on Nitter.




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