Wow, that loads immediately and actually shows the content in a useful way.

Thank you!

Off topic rant, BUT I'm gonna...

What is this? Why is it so much faster, and mobile friendly layout than either Twitter.com or their mobile app? And why does Twitter.com spam me with an overlay telling me to use the mobile app before I can see a tweet? Why do they care so much about me using the mobile app that I get spammed everytime I click a twitter.com link, only on mobile?

Much easier to mine data about people through an app, and also other kinds of stuff that it enables.

Thanks, I haven't bothered clicking on any twitter links since they started insisting on everyone allowing javascript. nitter.net seems to solve that problem for me :}

I am glad I could help! If nitter.net itself is not working, you can pick a mirror from this list:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

I read twitter without an account. Twitter tries all kinds of things to get me to log in. Now it blocks too much scrolling on a particular person's tweets.

It's this kind of user-unfriendly design that makes me want to abandon all social media.

Thank you, I wonder if I can somehow automatically twitter -> nitter in my hosts file or something.

It doesn’t help in-browser, but if you’re on macOS and using Finicky, you can add this to your `~/.finicky.js` under the `rewrite` rules:

    {
      match: ({ url }) => url.host === 'twitter.com',
      url: ({ url }) => {
        return { ...url, host: 'nitter.net' }
      },
    },

It goes along quite nicely with my `medium.com` to `scribe.rip` rule:

    {
      match: ({ url }) => url.host.endsWith('medium.com'),
      url: ({ url }) => {
        return { ...url, host: 'scribe.rip' }
      },
    },

(It should be possible to make it pick a random list from nitter mirrors.)

EDIT: Improved version that picks from random nitter redirectors (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#third-party-...). It needs the following declared at the top of the `finicky.js` file:

    const NITTER_HOSTS = ['twiiit.com', 'twitit.gq']

    const nitterHost = () => NITTER_HOSTS[Math.floor(Math.random() * NITTER_HOSTS.length)]

Then the rewrite rule is:

    {
      match: ({ url }) => url.host === 'twitter.com',
      url: ({ url }) => {
        return { ...url, host: nitterHost() }
      },
    },

Privacy Redirect firefox browser plugin can do that: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

I use the Redirector[0] browser extension to do this, and it works great.

[0]: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/

Good lookin' out, thanks

Edit: Here's the config I use to twitter -> nitter

    Redirect: https://twitter.com/\*
    to: https://nitter.net/$1
    Hint: Any word after twitter.com leads to nitter
    Example:https://twitter.com/some-username → https://nitter.net/some-username
    Applies to: Main window (address bar), IFrames

That got me wondering what other frontends there are for popular sites, and though I don't use reddit, I know a lot of folks do, so this should work for a thing I just found called 'teddit' which is inspired by Nitter

    Redirect: https://reddit.com/*
    to: https://teddit.net/$1
    Hint: Any word after reddit.com leads to teddit
    Example: https://reddit.com/u/some-username → https://teddit.net/u/some-username
    Applies to: Main window (address bar), IFrames

Here's a great compilation of privacy-preserving, JS-free front-ends for many popular sites like Twitter, Reddit, Youtube, and more: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

Thanks!