86 sats \ 4 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 13 Nov 2022 \ on: Should StackerNews convert Twitter URLs to Nitter URLs automatically? bitcoin
As someone without Twitter, I would really settle for some button somewhere that I can click for nitter. I don't care where. Typically I go to the comments to see if someone posted it first.
Twitter users really don't understand how login walled twitter is for those without account. If I'm lucky the tweet loads. If I touch the screen at all or the scroll wheel, I get hit with login wall.
Same. However, in the event SN doesn't want to implement this feature I would suggest checking out a "Privacy Redirect" extension for Chrome/Firefox that will leverage Nitter (and other read-only platforms for other social media sites)
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Or an account preference you can toggle within SN
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This is the reply I was just about to leave as well! In Settings.
But I still like the Twitter embed, especially for videos, so that I am not leaving SN just to see the contents of the Tweet. It's only on the threads (and thus launching to a new tab) where I prefer to use Nitter.
So maybe even if I have the Setting for auto convert to Nitter left off (disabled), I can still get the Nitter for it. So for Posts that are Tweets, it remains the Tweet showing the Embed but there's also a launcher link/icon for the Nitter for that Tweet, so I can see the Tweet and thread in Nitter.
In the comments, same thing ... next to the Twitter link, automatically show a link/icon for the Nitter for that Tweet.
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Good idea!
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