[HN Gopher] Show HN: TwitterToNitter. A bookmarklet that makes r... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-23 23:01 UTC)