Shitter – A Nitter Fork

https://codeberg.org/shitter/shitter

41•eustoria•1h ago

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BLKNSLVR•44m ago

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

weatherlite•43m ago

What the hell is this Xit

dewey•33m ago

Exit Twitter

hmokiguess•43m 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?

AdmiralAsshat•41m 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.

yoavm•34m 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•30m 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•21m 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•17m 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.

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grimgrin•40m 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

assimpleaspossi•22m 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•22m ago

Sarcasm?

assimpleaspossi•8m 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?

jimmydoe•16m ago

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

SomeonesAccount•15m 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

DavCreator•6m 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!

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