Nitter is an alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy. It's open source and there are instances running it from which you can choose. I personally use nitter.snopyta.org
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter which is how Nitter prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint.
You can simply replace the twitter dot com part of the url with nitter.snopyta.org or any other instance.
You can also use one of the extensions available for Firefox to redirect twitter links to a nitter instance automatically.
Why use Nitter?
It's basically impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. If you try, you're redirected to the legacy mobile version which is awful both functionally and aesthetically. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and potential IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using the legacy mobile version and a VPN, it's impossible.
Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in some cases serves pages faster.
Edit: Don't use the official Nitter instance which is nitter.net
Edit: For those who don't wanna check the extensions you can just use this one
Edit: For those who wanna replace Twitter completely with Nitter and don't have/use a Twitter account, you can do so by making one Nitter link to check up to 40 users. It works by adding a comma and a username so it should look like this nitter.snopyta.org/username,username,username and so on then you can bookmark the link.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/
https://bibliogram.snopyta.org/
There are obviously other instances
We should have our own instance at something like https://twitter.chapo.chat
Is there any reason whatsoever to use Twitter though? I have a perfectly good roof to go scream incoherent opinions from.
Uhhh is this an elaborate bit to trick people into saying something that sounds close to a racial slur, like "knickers"?
Maybe, but the name comes from Nitter being implemented in the Nim language (which I highly recommend if you write code): https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Nitter doesn't use accounts so I wouldn't count on it. They are working on making their own account system that is separate from Twitter's but you can ask the main developer on their official Matrix room #nitter:snopyta.org
If you are looking for a Twitter client then check Twidere which I hear doesn't look nice. They are currently working on Twidere X which is in beta and you can also get from F-Droid.
Edit: Don’t use the official Nitter instance which is nitter.net
why?
Too much traffic and whatnot. It displays a message that says "Instance has been rate limited." and asks you to use another instance because that is what the developer wants, for people to use other instances and not because it's actually rate limited IIRC You can set an extension to redirect to whatever instance you wanna use.
There's also Redirector, an open-source general-purpose redirect extension that works with all major browsers. It can handle nitter, invidious, bibliogram, and whatever else.
By the way, Snopyta has an index page with other neat services.
And then there's teddit that's like nitter, but for that other website.
You can use it as a PWA (progressive web app) to do so you, open Firefox and go to the site and then from Firefox's menu click on Add To Home Screen. If you actually wanna use it with your Twitter account then check my other comment
Refreshing usually works. The official Nitter instance which is nitter.net actually displays that for another reason. I remember I saw the developer say that they wanted people to use the other instances?
