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Nitter is a great project, way lighter than using Twitter and gets the job done if you want to check few accounts. I have a list of 30 accounts that I'm checking with Nitter and it's absolutely fantastic for this. Oh well, I guess I'll live without following those accounts.

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Nitter permitted perusing of twitter (x-cremente) without being tracked by whoever has the keys to the backdoors to twitter. This is why nitter is being killed - it destroys the surveillance capability provided by twitter/x/musk to interested parties.

You can peruse Twitter with a VPN and see direct-linked post content while signed-out though, even Reddit doesn't let you do that.

I am able to search and browse Reddit forums and comments without logging in. Can't do that on Twitter.

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