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Comment by danpalmer | Hacker News Reader

Looks like it's a Fediverse server that mirrors Twitter.

It's nitter, it's a privacy respecting frontend to twitter. Has nothing to do with the fediverse.

And I agree, linking it on HN is just a childish way of showing you're not down with Twitter. Don't force your views on others.

I run my own nitter instance for a group of friends, the secret is to never link it publicly because the traffic will destroy it.

Yeah, its just a slow instance. This [0] one seems to be faster. But yeah, they get "destroyed" easily, the same for piped/invidious or libreddit.

[0]: https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/elonmusk/status/16368352095879...

Linking to the proprietary websites would be forcing something on others, not linking to user-respecting mirrors.

Not really. Did you see what I wrote? I have my own nitter instance, I use it regularly. But it's on my terms, when I see a twitter link I can replace it with my nitter instance.

Forcing your own nitter instance on others and not letting them make their own decision is absolutely forcing something on others.

This doesn't seem like a mirror - it has it's own weird branding. I'd be cool with a mirror.

Well, it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nope. A mirror reflects the source. Here's an actual mirror: https://archive.is/VWtHb

I see, what category would nitter and other similar services be then?

I don’t know what nitter is.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

When somebody named INTPenis calls you childish, that's when you know you're really being childish.

I strongly disagree. When people link to twitter they're basically forcing the running of a corporation's client side application (computational paywall). Nitter mirror's client side experience is just HTML with real text and is much more accessible for things like screen readers. The web as an application movement has been a disaster for accessibility.

Not to mention that one might have to log in to see the tweet on the Twitter.

Ah that's a shame it's not actually integrated into the fediverse, it would be nice to be able to reference Tweets and Twitter users.

That's exactly what https://github.com/NicolasConstant/BirdsiteLive is, their purposes are distinct

Yeah and it's insanely slow, 37 seconds to load the web manifest, 35 seconds to load the HTML document and ~20 seconds per image

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