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It's nitter, it's a privacy respecting frontend to twitter. Has nothing to do with the fediverse. And I agree, linking it on HN is just a childish way of showi
by INTPenis 4y ago
It's nitter, it's a privacy respecting frontend to twitter. Has nothing to do with the fediverse.
And I agree, linking it on HN is just a childish way of showing you're not down with Twitter. Don't force your views on others.
I run my own nitter instance for a group of friends, the secret is to never link it publicly because the traffic will destroy it.
- jonas-w 4y agoYeah, its just a slow instance. This [0] one seems to be faster. But yeah, they get "destroyed" easily, the same for piped/invidious or libreddit. [0]: https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570 https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/elonmusk/status/16368352095879...
- danpalmer 4y agoAh that's a shame it's not actually integrated into the fediverse, it would be nice to be able to reference Tweets and Twitter users.
- MiguelX413 4y agoThat's exactly what https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive is, their purposes are distinct
- MiguelX413 4y agoLinking to the proprietary websites would be forcing something on others, not linking to user-respecting mirrors.
- nailer 4y agoThis doesn't seem like a mirror - it has it's own weird branding. I'd be cool with a mirror.
- MiguelX413 4y agoWell, it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- nailer 4y agoNope. A mirror reflects the source. Here's an actual mirror: https://archive.is/VWtHb https://archive.is/VWtHb
- MiguelX413 4y agoI see, what category would nitter and other similar services be then?
- nailer 4y agoI don’t know what nitter is.
- MiguelX413 4y agohttps://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
- INTPenis 4y agoNot really. Did you see what I wrote? I have my own nitter instance, I use it regularly. But it's on my terms, when I see a twitter link I can replace it with my nitter instance. Forcing your own nitter instance on others and not letting them make their own decision is absolutely forcing something on others.
- jonas21 4y agoWhen somebody named INTPenis calls you childish, that's when you know you're really being childish.
- superkuh 4y agoI strongly disagree. When people link to twitter they're basically forcing the running of a corporation's client side application (computational paywall). Nitter mirror's client side experience is just HTML with real text and is much more accessible for things like screen readers. The web as an application movement has been a disaster for accessibility.
- MiguelX413 4y agoNot to mention that one might have to log in to see the tweet on the Twitter.