Nitter on Cloudron - A free and open source alternative X / Twitter front-end focused on privacy

[A Former User]

Mod Edit:

• Title: Nitter on Cloudron - A free and open source alternative X / Twitter front-end focused on privacy.

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• Main Page: https://nitter.net/
• Git: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
• Licence: AGPL v3.0
• Docker: Yes: https://hub.docker.com/r/zedeus/nitter
• Demo: https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances also: https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/

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• Summary: An alternative front-end for X, similar to how invidious is a front-end for youtube.

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• Notes: Helps you and others avoid tracking on X, supports anonymity and Free Speech;
  AI bots were scraping X like crazy to glean real human discussion. This might have been why X have made it so difficult to find a working instance.

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• Alternative to / Libhunt link: e.g. https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/umap-alternatives
• Screenshots:

[yusf]

Cool, but why Cloudron? It needs no server.

[A Former User]

@yusf You can self host your own instance of it, so you're not reliant on a third party.

[yusf]

I assumed it was completely statically served but maybe not?

[fbartels]

the repository is marked as a "work in progress" and there has been no formal release as of yet. I think these two facts make it hard to really consider this for an app.

@yusf said in Nitter - A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy.:

I assumed it was completely statically served but maybe not?

It seems to bring some form of binary daemon. Given that this is named like the project makes it not seem like it can be served by any webserver.

[marcusquinn]

Just heard of this from @jdaviescoates - certainly curious and similarly: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2617/rss-bridge-a-good-complement-to-fresh-rss

[timconsidine]

@fbartels it has a dockerfile so maybe deployable on Cloudron ?

Even if not a complex app, cloudron is my go-to production platform, so I could see value in having it in Cloudron.

[ericdrgn]

Is there still not a reason for this and similar projects like Invidious (YouTube) and Bibliogram (Instagram) and Libreddit (Reddit) to be on Cloudron?

I think being able to provide frontends like these are important.

[girish]

@ericdrgn no reason really, just lack of time/priority to package them. If you can get an initial package going, happy to get things moving forward.

[ericdrgn]

@girish I'll give it a shot, anytime I've tried packaging things before I always meet failure haha. We'll see if this one is easier maybe.

[LoudLemur]

@ericdrgn Hi, thanks for looking at this. Any news on progress?

Nitter is becoming much more widely used, alongside similar applications which provide frontends for other websites e.g.

invidio.us for Youtube
teddit.net for Reddit

The Privacy Redirect browser extension is perhaps popularizing these great alternatives.
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/5770/teddit-alternative-reddit-front-end-focused-on-privacy/2?_=1648203865700

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2674/invidious-an-alternative-front-end-to-youtube?_=1648229650498

[LoudLemur]

With the recent success of support for Teddit, I want to bump this Request for Nitter again.

Nitter is an alternative frontend for Twitter. It tries to offer the same level of privacy on Twitter that Teddit does for Reddit.

There is also a request for another Twitter related tool, Feeter, which helps you post:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/6880/feetter-create-and-manage-anonymous-feeds-in-nitter-with-a-simple-fast-web-interface

Nitter, Teddit and other applications are part of a suite offered by Privacy Redirect:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8218/i-want-a-ballroom-made-entirely-of-waterfalls?_=1688374752302

[LoudLemur]

Here is a live page of Nitter instances:

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances
https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/

[robi]

While public access instances are declining to zero due to changes at Twitter, there is still a way to run a private instance. This would be useful for Cloudron as a one click solution if the greater Nitter community was made aware.

This how to deploy a personal instance: https://github.com/sekai-soft/guide-nitter-self-hosting