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A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy. \
Inspired by the invidio.us project.

• No JavaScript or ads
• All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter
• Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
• Unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)
• Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 36KB vs 580KB from twitter.com)
• RSS feeds
• Themes
• Mobile support (responsive design)
• AGPLv3 licensed, no proprietary instances permitted

Resources

The wiki contains a list of
Nitter instances and
a list of browser extensions
maintained by the community.

Why?

It's basically impossible to use Twitter without JavaScript enabled. If you try,
you're redirected to the legacy mobile version which is awful both functionally
and aesthetically. For privacy-minded folks, preventing JavaScript analytics and
potential IP-based tracking is important, but apart from using the legacy mobile
version and a VPN, it's impossible.

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 some cases serves pages faster.

In the future a simple account system will be added that lets you follow Twitter
users, allowing you to have a clean chronological timeline without needing a
Twitter account.

Here are a few example of work done, and how easy to use Krita in CMYK color profile for printing.

YES! #DeleteGoogle is reality

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PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES

Despite employing a small army of contractors to monitor posts, it’s clear the company is no longer fit for purpose

After 15 years of renting, Michael Janda has finally bought a house even though he's pretty sure Australian property prices have further to fall. Here's why.

In short, I fear Google is well on the way to becoming a different kind of company, and it worries me. This is not because I inherently love Google—it’s a profit-making entity, and its shareholders will always come before me. But I worry that it is increasingly trading away my trust for short-term benefits. Even worse, this course change indicates that companies’ self-interest in maintaining user trust may not be a match for the business pressures that drive them to become more intrusive.

Help Australian Farmers by buying a bale of hay. Please donate to the Buy A Bale campaign, help us make our drought appeal a success.

There’s been another surge of Twitter users moving to Mastodon in the last few days and for the first time it feels like it’s getting some mainstream traction. It’s an interesting time—the fediverse has never operated at this scale before. Many are hoping it could fill the role of Twitter 2.0 but that’s still very uncertain. As a community we’re going to suck it and see.

If client-side JavaScript isn’t benefiting the user-experience, ask yourself if it’s really necessary. Maybe server-side-rendered HTML would actually be faster. Consider limiting the use of client-side frameworks to pages that absolutely require them. Server-rendering and client-rendering are a disaster if done poorly.