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Shitter – A Nitter Fork

135 points • by eustoria • today at 1:02 PM • 104 comments • view on HN

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grimgrin • today at 1:28 PM

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

moopie • today at 2:16 PM

There’s really no reason to bother with social networks owned by literal far right supporters

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DavCreator • today at 2:02 PM

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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SomeonesAccount • today at 1:53 PM

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 • today at 1:24 PM

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

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jimmydoe • today at 1:52 PM

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

dcre • today at 4:45 PM

The fact that there is not even a sentence explaining why it's a fork, i.e., how it differs from the original, suggests this was only on the front page because of the name. Kinda dumb!

hmokiguess • today at 1:25 PM

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?

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ly0n • today at 4:23 PM

Stop using platforms that are clearly operated by fascists. Then we won't need such tools anymore.

nine_k • today at 2:28 PM

Is the code crap? Is it optimized for shitposting? Is it called so to show disdain towards the service formerly known as Twitter?

draw_down • today at 2:07 PM

I am begging these things to use a normal fucking name for once

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fashglk • today at 2:27 PM

It is strange that social justice organizations ban people for all sorts of reasons but always support weird deviant user names or project names.

You pretend to be for including women but repel 95% of normal women because you actually only want the weird ones.

assimpleaspossi • today at 1:45 PM

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

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