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It's fun how it works the first three times, then less fun when it complains about being "rate limited" on the fourth time.
Any rate limit errors are false flags caused by bugs, they aren't related to load or real rate limits
privacy redirect is a browser extension that can automatically redirect twitter links to the nitter instance of your choice. it also handles youtube->invidious, instagram->bibliogram, reddit->teddit, and more firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
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Any rate limit errors are false flags caused by bugs, they aren't related to load or real rate limits
I'm not sure why this is down-voted despite it being posted by what looks like the original developer according to their username: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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It's a shame Mozilla butchered Firefox mobile, cos this still doesn't work on it.
It does work on Firefox Android but the extension is not part of the default set. You need to use a version of Firefox that supports Custom Add-on Collections like a Nightly build or the F-Droid Fennec build. Once you've got this installed you need to enable the debug menu by tapping the Firefox logo on the 'About Firefox' screen five times (see [1] for more info), add the Firefox ID and repo name for a repo with the…
Also, all your extensions need to be in a collection together, so this isn't the most useful.
You can use mine, which contains all the extensions I use, including privacy redirect, plus a few bonus extensions I don't normally use but which I think are useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1383278...
Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849744
Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849744 - Dec 2019 (38 comments)
privacy redirect is a browser extension that can automatically redirect twitter links to the nitter instance of your choice. it also handles youtube->invidious, instagram->bibliogram, reddit->teddit, and more firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
It's a shame Mozilla butchered Firefox mobile, cos this still doesn't work on it.
privacy redirect is a browser extension that can automatically redirect twitter links to the nitter instance of your choice. it also handles youtube->invidious, instagram->bibliogram, reddit->teddit, and more firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
>instagram->bibliogram no longer works.
When Nitter first came around, it was incredible. It really goes to show just how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal. Too bad it isn’t and Nitter instances will forever run into rate limiting.
Yet it seems if you tell the average web developer that those sites should be accessible with software and hardware from that era, or even older in the case of Twitter (rendering short snippets of text and some small images doesn't require the latest technology, seriously), they'll become confused or indignant, or try to use some absurd argument to justify it.
Twitter and YouTube are great examples of a lot of the disturbing trends in web development today. Whatever it is, it's not "progress"!
I don't "contribute" to either one, nor do I have an account; I just go there to read or watch what others have contributed.
Could this be used as a base to fork the existing ecosystem away from centralised control and back to its users? Say using decentralised storage and a synched side chain?
https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive/blob/master/...
Nitter also supports RSS, so you can follow Twitter accounts in your feedreader.
What you can't do in either is reply back to Twitter profiles. BirdsiteLive sets the bridged toots (equivalent of tweets) as private, which on Mastodon renders as unsharable.
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I'm not sure why this is down-voted despite it being posted by what looks like the original developer according to their username: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
I have no idea, maybe "false flag" was too incorrect? You're right, I am.
"Spurious error" would probably be a better term.
Thanks, BTW, amazing tool.