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Do Nitter forks exist? (yiffit.net)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am not a fan of Twitter, but sometimes I would like to visit a Twitter profile, unfortunately due to Twitter restrictions it is currently not possible to view anything without an account, and clearly I am not going to create a Twitter account for that, are there any forks in development that are trying to solve these Twitter problems? I remember reading about a fork that uses fake accounts to access the API, but I don't know if this fork is still in development or if there are others.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah to me xitter is still a viable news source from certain journalists. Also just having friends send meme threads or whatever is annoying when you can't read it.

I've found that some of the nitter mirrors still work every so often when their rate limits reset but it's not ideal - https://nitter.privacydev.net/

Unfortunately I can't see an obvious way that a fork of nitter would not encounter the same issues with the xitter API aggressively blocking/limiting scraping and GET requests.