That’s exactly why I built Twitter without an account. I don’t use X as a social network; I just wanted a quick way to open public posts people send me.
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Look, im happy they're sticking it to em, but can't we at just stop using that god forsaken site?
Governments and social services first.
I expect to see a hydra effect on the other end as well. Twitter's trying to shut down the proxies with legal threats. When that doesn't work, they will use technological measures like requiring you access it from an official mobile app with remote attestation. When (not if) all of the circumvention exploits are patched, there will be absolutely no means by which even the most well-meaning people (like archivists/preservationists and academics researching social media) can access Twitter in the way they need to to do their job.
I made my own at https://stopusingx.com/ but I am having rate limit issues with the amount of use it is getting lmao. I will add more xitter accounts I guess
Very useful the guide in https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Creating-session-tokens. Now I have more accounts, hopefully it works better now ;)
At least these five seemed to work fine, and I ordered them in response time as pinged from Denmark, Europe. Some of the others required annoying "are you human tests":
https://nitter.meowing.monster/
https://nitter.click/
https://tw.eir-nya.gay/
https://nitter.xitter.cc/
https://x.n0g.xyz/
As for redirecting, LibRedirect (use wget to download the crx file) still works on Chromium even though it's not manifest v3 yet, although they say they're working on it. Other redirecting services are available.
I've been using a vibe-coded userscript in the meantime, which is hacky and uses Tweet Grok's Twitter Viewer. I definitely prefer Nitter though.
I love the name chosen for nitter.xitter.cc - every part of the domain name contributes to the full description of its purpose.
Cut off one head, and two more will grow in its place.
Love to see it, hate to look at it
Putting a different veneer on a nazi bar does not stop it from being a nazi bar, and doesn't mean you're not still patronizing it.
It does if you're making their servers do work without consuming ads