[HN Gopher] Show HN: TwitterToNitter. A bookmarklet that makes r...
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Show HN: TwitterToNitter. A bookmarklet that makes reading on
Twitter easier
Author : mg
Score : 66 points
Date : 2022-09-23 13:14 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| MonkeyMalarky wrote:
| Fantastic. I don't have a twitter account and it's really
| annoying to open a link and find out twitter thinks it's adult
| content (often not really) and get a login page. Or just scroll
| too far into the replies get hit with a login.
| westcort wrote:
| Here is the same code, except you can just drag and drop the code
| into your bookmarks bar:
|
| https://locserendipity.com/Nitter.html
|
| What a great idea!
|
| Edit: Please note that this will only work for desktop browsers
| pwdisswordfish0 wrote:
| The instructions provided in the README (about manually
| bookmarking a bookmarklet link) reflects the careful process
| that has to be followed to use bookmarklets on mobile browsers.
| The instructions to _drag and drop this bookmarklet_ (or even
| _long press and copy the link destination_ ) will fail for
| anyone who's not using a traditional desktop/laptop form factor
| computer system.
| westcort wrote:
| Thanks! I have added that disclaimer.
| imron wrote:
| The existence of something like nitter demonstrates 2 things:
|
| 1. There is massive demand for the product Twitter has on offer.
|
| 2. Twitter is utterly incompetent at capitalizing on that demand.
|
| This has been true more or less for Twitter's entire existence.
| cglong wrote:
| I wish this was a browser extension so the redirection could
| happen automatically! Would probably function similar to [1].
|
| [1]: https://github.com/Jdhaimson/smilealways
| hadrien01 wrote:
| I use Privacy Redirect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... It also works for Invidious
| and Bibliogram, but I only use it for Nitter.
| codetrotter wrote:
| There was also this from the other day.
|
| LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy
| friendly services
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916318
| mg wrote:
| I prefer bookmarklets for a few reasons:
|
| Compatibility: Bookmarklets work on all devices. Deskop, iOS
| and Android.
|
| Security: I can easily read and understand the code. They only
| run when I invoke them. While extensions have access to
| everything you do an any page, bookmarklets only have access to
| the page where you invoke them.
|
| Flexibility: They are easy to change. For example in this one,
| I will probably update the array of Nitter instances regularly.
|
| Usability: I can organize them just like my other bookmarks.
|
| Sharing: I can put the bookmark in just a line of text in a
| text file with an explanation. As I did here. No need to dabble
| with extension repositories of Firefox and Chrome, as you would
| have to with extensions. I don't even know how it would work
| for other browsers.
| ramesh31 wrote:
| They are great for us developers who can vet every line. But
| extremely dangerous for non technical users.
| pessimizer wrote:
| You can just use any of the twitter/website redirector browser
| plugins to forward https://twitter.com/[X] to
| https://farside.link/nitter/[X]
| Hitton wrote:
| Except for the random choosing of instances it's easy to do
| with Redirector:
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...
|
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
|
| Userscripts don't work too well for this, because you have to
| either check all links everywhere or delay redirection to only
| after you reached the page.
| kixiQu wrote:
| Tampermonkey scripts combine well with this kind of thing, IMO;
| I use bookmarklets for stuff I only want to happen on command
| (https://maya.land/bookmarklets/readable/) and Tampermonkey to
| automatically or conditionally invoke bits
| (https://maya.land/user-scripts/hypothesis/)
| calvinmorrison wrote:
| I use "nitter redirect" for firefox.
|
| I actually don't like it, I spend more time on twitter now
| awinter-py wrote:
| cannot believe twitter web ux is as bad as it is
|
| feel like it's half not their fault (scrolling is hard to
| customize in the DOM), half mostly of their fault (you can use
| columns to make infinite-scroll interfaces less neurologically
| grating), and half totally their fault (giant dom hierarchy that
| ruins my ram, loading recirc before content, zero confidence when
| ctrl-clicking something whether it will actually open in a new
| tab)
| recursive wrote:
| The reason it's hard to customize scrolling is probably that it
| worked perfectly well in the first place. The solution is to
| stop messing with it.
| andirk wrote:
| I often feel like every advancement in web UI is a downgrade.
| In other words, bring back <blink> and <marquee>.
| mnd999 wrote:
| It's pretty easy to host your own Nitter instance too (I do) if
| you want to avoid the rate limiter errors.
| Macha wrote:
| This does negate some of the privacy from Twitter advantages,
| especially if hosted in your home network. Of course nitter
| also has the privacy from instance operator question, and your
| two options are basically to use a small list of instances you
| trust or such a large pool of instances that the instance
| operator has very little to link together
| stefanvdw1 wrote:
| I've been wanting to make a browser extension that does this for
| multiple sites.
|
| Besides Nitter, what other options exists out there for sites
| such as Reddit or Instagram?
| qjx wrote:
| for reddit there's teddit.net
|
| for instagram there was bibliogram.art which unfortunately shut
| down recently due to instagram's tactics
| moneywoes wrote:
| What did IG do?
| jonas-w wrote:
| I'm using libredirect, i never see the original frontend and it
| works like a charm.
|
| Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916318
| berkut wrote:
| Mildly off-topic, but...
|
| One minor annoyance I have with one of the "open" Nitter hosting
| sites I use to follow Twitter accounts is that Nitter seems (at
| least on iOS) to save bookmarks with the original twitter URL
| instead of the Nitter one I'm currently viewing, and I then have
| to manually edit the bookmark URL to correct it...
|
| Does anyone know if it's possible to control this (with an
| option?) if I were to host Nitter myself (open source I guess,
| but still)?
| pwdisswordfish0 wrote:
| The bookmarked URL is under the control of your browser. Could
| you provide more detail?
| Recursing wrote:
| I recently found out that you can just click "log in" and then
| click the "X" in the top left to close the modal, without
| actually logging in.
|
| Previously I was using this bookmarklet:
|
| javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.querySelector("html").style%5B'
| overflow'%5D %3D 'visible'%7D)()%3B
| otsaloma wrote:
| I used to use a Nitter redirect extension, but whatever Nitter
| instance I was using was unbearably slow. I've now been using
| https://github.com/MaySoMusician/breakthrough-twitter-login-... .
| It seems to work fine (if login wall is your gripe with Twitter).
| [deleted]
| beckman466 wrote:
| it would be easier if twitter just ported itself to Secure
| Scuttlebutt or the myriad other p2p/dweb projects.
| elil17 wrote:
| The reality is that Twitter will never do that. They have
| absolutely no reason to.
| kdmdlsp wrote:
| Regulation could give them a reason to, but there's a
| conflict of interest when the controlling interests in
| government would prefer to ask the FBI to suppress
| inconvenient speech[0] on the dominant platforms.
|
| 0: https://www-bbc-
| com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.com/news/...
| basicoperation wrote:
| I use a share screen shortcut in iOS to do something similar.
|
| Very simplistic, but here's a link if anyone would find it
| useful:
| https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac27cb797ddc479784f22631d69...
| ewuhic wrote:
| There's also an extension called "alternative frontends", which
| does that and even more[0]
|
| [0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alternative-
| fronte...
| Kuinox wrote:
| Given count of 7 users, are you perhaps the author ?
| aquova wrote:
| Nitter is an excellent alternative. The only thing stopping me
| from 100% using it, as I have for Reddit->Libreddit and
| Youtube->Invidious is the lack of some sort of timeline. I tried
| setting up an RSS feed for it, but I mostly use Twitter to follow
| artists I like, and it wasn't easy to browse. Fortunately, there
| is a pull request for this feature
| (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/363) but it's been sitting
| for a while.
| Ambolia wrote:
| You can separate users with commas on nitter to get a
| chronological timeline:
| https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack,PeterZeihan
|
| Otherwise you can get RSS links from nitter and add them to the
| browser extension Fraidycat, I'm not 100% happy with it but
| it's decent to follow RSS links in a sort of timeline kind of
| way:
|
| https://fraidyc.at/
| bjelkeman-again wrote:
| That Fraidycat app is really very interesting. Thanks, I am
| going to try that out.
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