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.
I can view tweets on Nitter without logging in. On Twitter, I have to log in to scroll more than two tweets without Twitter capturing my mobile browser window and forcing me to sign up or login to use my browser.
If you want to have a Twitter account and doomscroll that slop all day, Nitter isn't for you. But, if you don't want to have a Twitter account and just want to view a few tweets once in a while it's great, and I will die before I make a Twitter account just to look at clown girls.
unlike twitter web it also doesnt instantly take 100% of the memory on my shitty 6 year old phone
If you want to have a Twitter account and doomscroll that slop all day, Nitter isn’t for you
a lot of the same discovery-focused user flows are present in Nitter though?
before I make a Twitter account just to look at clown girls
:wut:
One of the hottest girls I ever dated did birthdays parties as a clown. Never saw her in the outfit, she did make me a balloon animal a couple times though.
It actually allows me to use Twitter without an account
For everyone that's currently banned, temp banned or refuses to have an account it's basically essential just to be able to view the site.
why would you log into a twitter account intentionally lol
your browser's not making the requests to twitter, so you're not surveilled directly. that's the primary reason for any of these alt front ends. they might not have full feature parity, but they don't transmit a constant stream of your activity to half a dozen data brokers.
I prefer Nitter/Teddit because the actual twitter/reddit mobile UIs are actively hostile to non-logged-in users and keep trying to force me to download an app
the design is clumsy and irritating enough on my phone that it stopped me earlier from sending a lib an image of a pig pooping on its balls
the ability to shitpost ppb must not be infringed
it's for browsing twitter without having a twitter account and it serves its purpose well. I manually change twitter links to nitter so I don't have to deal with twitter blasting login popups and disallowing me from clicking to another tweet entirely
i will never get a bird site account so its great for me
i have a redirect extension on firefox that auto converts twitter links to nitter ones so i never have to deal with twitters bullshit
ps everyone uses nitter.net but it seems to get overused at times and becomes very slow and glitchy, youre better off using one of the mirrors (i use nitter.42l.fr)
Doesn't it do the twitter requests server-side so your browser never has to make requests to Twitter.
I can’t even log into my twitter account to follow accounts.
it's for when you can't login, don't want to login, or don't have an account. Twitter is shit though, screenshots are better, and if it doesn't fit into a small screenshot, it shouldn't be a shitty """"tweet thread""""".
yeah, the UX is terrible and the css on mobile makes it irritating to copy/paste usernames into the actual twitter app
this press release claims it is more secure because it doesn’t use javascript, which frankly feels like a dinosaur take:
https://fluxofficial.medium.com/flux-launches-open-source-alternative-twitter-front-end-focused-on-privacy-bed93634f5f5
we get it gen-x, you hate JS and want to do everything with CSS and a dial up modem.
:agony-immense:
okay, I’m actually interested in hearing this from someone born in the same decade, why do you think js ruins the internet?
If you'll settle for a millennial's opinion, websites used to show more information and load more quickly and didn't crash or have front-end bugs or gobble up all your memory. Idk how much of that is due to JS itself and how much is just the fact that the internet now is just five or six bloated corporate megasites though.
As for the question in your OP, Twitter intentionally cripples their site for anyone not logged into an account, so I use Nitter because otherwise I can't read the site at all.
JavaScript is extremely bloated and has little to no support for older devices, so people who can only afford older devices due to them being used, or people with extremely low-grade devices which lag anyways, cannot use a significant portion of the Internet.
I can’t even log into my twitter account to follow accounts from nitter. This is a dog shit user experience.
Pure :zizek-preference:
This is like complaining that when somebody links to an NYT article using archive.is, you can't use it to log in to the NYT site and add it to your saved articles.
The whole point is being able to access without an account and without logging in.
better example would be if archive.is for NYT only captured half the content or something. I’m just trying to understand what the utility of nitter is.
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:
if you prefer Twitter's 784KB of JavaScript over nitter's 60KB...
