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Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by zedeus »

danShumway wrote: post #30

If anyone from Nitter is currently around, pure curiosity question -- what are the hosting costs/usage numbers for the current public instance? Whenever I see projects like this that are just public, and designed to be available across large regions, I'm always curious what the logistics behind them are. Big companies talk about their infrastructure, and tiny blogs talk about their infrastructure. I don't hear a lot…

It doesn't take much to run Nitter really, the nitter.net instance is currently sitting at 310 MB of memory and the CPU requirements aren't too bad. It's running off my dedicated home server with fairly low specs (i3-8100) tunnelled through a cheap VPS to bypass firewall restrictions. It hasn't crashed or (to my knowledge) experienced severe slowdowns despite the huge traffic increase today. Invidious's story is a bit different as the main instance load balances between 10 VPS instances.

Regarding usage stats I don't have any accurate numbers, but the database that stores preferences has 30k rows.

Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by zedeus »

rolltiide wrote: post #29

Are the Republican political account names randomly generated? When it shows who retweeted something on a political thread they had comical derogatory names. Is that something you actually spent time on or is that user generated content

No content gets edited by Nitter except links being expanded and twitter/youtube links getting replaced (unless the user disables that)

Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by markosaric »

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #23
hjek wrote: post #19

There's this lovely browser extension, Invidition[0], which does Twitter to Nitter redirecting (as well as Youtube to Invidious). [0]: https://codeberg.org/Booteille/Invidition

Looks great... I've been using a different extension "Redirector", and setting my own rules. But this should cover most of them!

Another one I add to Redirector is reddit.com to old.reddit.com :)

Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by surround »

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #23
hjek wrote: post #19

There's this lovely browser extension, Invidition[0], which does Twitter to Nitter redirecting (as well as Youtube to Invidious). [0]: https://codeberg.org/Booteille/Invidition

Looks great... I've been using a different extension "Redirector", and setting my own rules. But this should cover most of them!

Take a look at Request Control, it’s more complex but it can do pretty much anything (from removing utm parameters to skipping redirects)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestcontro...

Start with the rule “[hostname=nitter.net]” for twitter.com requests

Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by 3xblah »

tjoff wrote: post #18
mirimir wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK. But it seems like lots of work for just reading. And maybe I don't read enough to trigger roadblocks. Or maybe I just block enough stuff.

It's barely possible to read a single tweet or thread without being logged in. If you don't block anything. Solution is of course to not use twitter.

If change/remove User-Agent header and disable Javascript, then can read single tweets and threads easily at mobile.twitter.com. No need to block anything.

Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by mirimir »

zedeus wrote: post #24
jonwinstanley wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably this project is for just reading?

Yes, but I do have some far future plans about utilizing the "Login with Twitter" authentication method to let people use the API on their behalf, which would allow making tweets etc.

That would be very cool.

The horrible interface is probably the main reason why I never got into Twitter. It's very hard to follow stuff, bercause it gets sorted in (for me) useless ways. Plus the fact that even generally interesting people retweet (or even tweet) some cringeworthy stuff.

Re: Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End

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Post by boring_twenties »

markosaric wrote: post #33
0xdeadb00f wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks great... I've been using a different extension "Redirector", and setting my own rules. But this should cover most of them!

Another one I add to Redirector is reddit.com to old.reddit.com :)

If you're logged into reddit you can just set old reddit in your account's preferences.

If you're not logged in you're only seeing the cesspool of default reddits... I would recommend avoiding that

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