Shitter – A Nitter Fork

50 points | by eustoria an hour ago

18 comments

  • DavCreator 10 minutes ago

    Would love to redirect more often to shitter instances with https://xxcancel.com. But there seems to be a bug loading images (e.g. profile pictures or attached pictures to tweets) in Firefox.

    Example: https://shitter.thepixora.com/search?f=tweets&q=elon+musk

    Wont show any pictures in Firefox for me. Works in Chrome. Can this be fixed? Thank you!

  • grimgrin 44 minutes ago

    see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

    many working instances right now: https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter/wiki/Instances

  • SomeonesAccount 19 minutes ago

    I made a thing that uses Nitter to have a revchron timeline of people in the tech space. No algorithm, every post shows up (unless you filter out an account). Feedback is appreciated: https://techtwitter-lime.vercel.app

  • BLKNSLVR an hour ago

    I thought it should be called Xitter, but pronounced Shitter.

      lioeters 2 minutes ago

      Xittier, a better Xwitter alternative

      weatherlite an hour ago

      What the hell is this Xit

        dewey 37 minutes ago

        Exit Twitter

  • jimmydoe 20 minutes ago

    somehow i feel this reflects if not also enhances the cultural position of x.com.

  • hmokiguess an hour ago

    can someone explain to me how these things keep popping up and disappearing and how are they able to just spin them up at will somehow?

      yoavm 39 minutes ago

      What do you mean by "how"? The code is freely available, you can spin it up at will too in just a few minutes. When they disappear, sometimes it's because the maintainer doesn't want the headache, and sometimes it's because a they're threatened to remove it.

        hmokiguess 34 minutes ago

        I guess I never bothered reading the code so for whatever reason I assumed it required some extraordinary circumvention to host it that isn't very accessible

        what you're saying, if I understand correctly, is that self-hosting this is trivial then

        so does that mean I could run my own local instance and never get it taken down since traffic would be negligible? why do people opt to host these for others over teaching how to run your own for example?

          fcarraldo 26 minutes ago

          Because it isn’t magic, there’s still Twitter auth required https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/src/auth.nim

          Every individual running their own instance would be the equivalent of every individual having their own Twitter account, which defeats the purpose.

            cassianoleal 22 minutes ago

            We need a multiplexer in front of all these instances. One that works like a load balancer, health checking the individual instances and adding/removing them from the pool automatically. That would allow people to create new accounts, serve their own instance and attach them to the muxer.

      AdmiralAsshat an hour ago

      I assume the source code repo is still up somewhere, so I assume it's the domains that are being taken offline, not the code, and anyone can then trivially spin up their own instance.

  • assimpleaspossi 27 minutes ago

    No professional would stoop so low as to name any project such a thing. And HN should never post such low class gutter language.

      valicord 26 minutes ago

      Sarcasm?

        assimpleaspossi 12 minutes ago

        Absolutely not! Such low life gutter talk is not acceptable in polite society and shouldn't be allowed in any professional atmosphere. Or am I again trying to elevate HN?