About

Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

This instance is running a fork, whose source can be found at https://git.eir-nya.gay/eir/nitter
Additionally, I am copying changes from https://gitlab.com/Cynosphere/nitter (her instance)

No JavaScript or ads
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)
Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.com)
RSS feeds
Themes
Mobile support (responsive design)
AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted (source code below)

Nitter's GitHub wiki contains instances and browser extensions maintained by the community.

Fork features (from Cynthia Foxwell's fork)

Localized following via cookies (list exportable and editable in preferences)
Image zooming/carousel (requires JavaScript)
Up to date Twitter features, e.g. Community Notes
Embeds for chat services on-par with services like FxTwitter and vxTwitter
No dependency on Redis, as it has caused ratelimiting issues, but also forcably disables RSS

Why use Nitter?

It's impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using a VPN and uBlock/uMatrix, it's impossible. Despite being behind a VPN and using heavy-duty adblockers, you can get accurately tracked with your browser's fingerprint, no JavaScript required. This all became particularly important after Twitter removed the ability for users to control whether their data gets sent to advertisers.

Using an instance of Nitter (hosted on a VPS for example), you can browse Twitter without JavaScript while retaining your privacy. In addition to respecting your privacy, Nitter is on average around 15 times lighter than Twitter, and in most cases serves pages faster (eg. timelines load 2-4x faster).

Donating

Donations go to zedeus, original creator of Nitter.

Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/zedeus
Patreon: https://patreon.com/nitter
BTC: bc1qp7q4qz0fgfvftm5hwz3vy284nue6jedt44kxya
ETH: 0x66d84bc3fd031b62857ad18c62f1ba072b011925
LTC: ltc1qhsz5nxw6jw9rdtw9qssjeq2h8hqk2f85rdgpkr
XMR: 42hKayRoEAw4D6G6t8mQHPJHQcXqofjFuVfavqKeNMNUZfeJLJAcNU19i1bGdDvcdN6romiSscWGWJCczFLe9RFhM3d1zpL

Credits

Cynthia Foxwell for her fork of this project
Zedeus for this project
PrivacyDevel, cmj, and taskylizard for keeping this project alive with forks after the main repo went inactive
Every other contributors who've committed to the main repo in the past

To any law enforcement agencies and copyright holders (from Cynthia Foxwell's fork)

All illegal content should be reported to Twitter directly. This service is merely a proxy of Twitter and no content is hosted on this server. Do not waste your time contacting internet service providers, hosting providers and/or domain registrars.

If you would like more context, you can read about this exact issue happening to PussTheCat.org's instance.

I emplore all Nitter instance hosts to not enable media proxying, even if it "phones home" to Twitter's CDN (which doesn't really pose a tracking risk and breaks videos anyways), as it has been used as an attack vector to take down nitter.net.

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