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Relying on "Request archive." as source in order to have a local partial mirror

Open Utopiah opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Hi, I believe in addition to privacy concerns there is also the potential for increased reliability why being less reliant on a service that might not keep on functioning for decades.

I personally use Twitter not just to communicate with others but also to my future self. It means sometimes I write down ideas and even if nobody reply, I might come back to it later. This means potentially years later and ideally even after Twitter becomes unusable (e.g closes down, isn't accessible, follow moral principles too far from mine).

Using the "Request archive." function we can get JSON files and data (images, videos, etc) rather conveniently (yet sadly not automatically nor streamed).

Could Nitter be used as a better frontend to navigate such a partial mirror?

Utopiah avatar Apr 14 '22 15:04 Utopiah