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firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...
*I use "frontend" quite liberally here, i mean, honestly maybe a browser plugin that shrinks a tweet to half its size, indents replies much like HN comments are indented, and loads more tweets in a single page, maybe that would be enough to make Twitter 90% more pleasant to use.
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.
Page says “Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)”. What is this unofficial API?
To see the gt, read the contents of twitter.com
For example, using Chrome
chrome view-source:mobile.twitter.com
Ctrl-F gt=
curl https://mobile.twitter.com|grep -o gt=[0-9]*
Javascript provided by Twitter in the twitter.com can do these three steps automatically (but this requires using a Javascript-enabled browser), or it can be done without a browser, e.g., with a different scripting language (personally I use the shell).
For example, some folks use Python:
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...
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?
twitter ratelimits nitter servers, so you'd need every individual user (or a good portion of users) running a personal server and then you'd have to collate the data somehow. and at that level of effort it would be easier to just convince people to use mastodon.
Example: I run a Mastodon instance on communick.com. I am thinking of running a nitter instance AND a secondary instance of Mastodon (or Pleroma) that acts as twitter mirror. I can then let users of the main communick instance to follow people on twitter, but still keeping them inside the Fediverse. The idea gets a bit more complicated if we want to make it two-way bridge, but I believe that can be done with a bit of Pleroma's MRF magic.
The beauty of this solution is that it does not require any change from those that have no interest in moving out of Twitter, but it does break the garden walls.
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.
There's an anal process to enable it, and I think it only works in beta/fennec, but it works.
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?
twitter ratelimits nitter servers, so you'd need every individual user (or a good portion of users) running a personal server and then you'd have to collate the data somehow. and at that level of effort it would be easier to just convince people to use mastodon.
Have never run a nitter server, so maybe this is not possible - but could one be included as part of a web client? Ie, user surfs to "twinitter.com", receives a nitter server that takes their twitter credentials and starts posting their activity to the new chain and optionally to twitter also. If the user supplies no credentials, the server would simply run like a user-led crawler, adding more data to the new chain in what could be presumed to be some kind of optimum fashion, as it would always be the content users of the dual chains were interested in.
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...
no longer works.