this feels like an example of performative FOSS
edit: I can’t even log into my twitter account to follow accounts. This means I’m just copy/pasting into the twitter app again anyway, defeating the purpose
edit 2: every nitter page will reopen in twitter if you click the tiny twitter icon in the upper right corner. Thanks @brainwormfarmer for the tip.
how am I supposed to use it? one of the points of twitter is following interesting accounts, otherwise I’d have to bookmark them all or something. Does nitter have some kind of RSS integration I need to look for?
If you have a twitter account and you're fine browsing logged in, you're not supposed to use it. Twitter is openly hostile to anyone without an account, nitter allows people without twitter accounts to browse twitter without being forced to create an account.
okay, so it’s a passive client then for drive-by browsing? I just don’t understand what not having an account accomplishes.
Yes. It accomplishes not having an account. I don't want a twitter account, so I don't have one. Nitter lets me look at people saying dumb stuff on twitter. Simple as.
that’s a lot of work for someone to build a twitter client, but alright. I’m definitely a design nerd, which is probably part of why the site bothers me
If you're a design nerd, consider that this is the twitter experience when I am not logged in: https://imgur.com/a/tQE1usg
Bright white theme, can't see shit past the constant login popups, can't click a link to another twitter account. Nitter saves me from all that horrible design.
oh yeah, thats’s a :dumpster-fire:. the mobile app’s dark mode though is :chefs-kiss:
the harder twitter tries to force me to make an account, the less i'm inclined to do so :meow-anarchist:
:yea: