I refuse to give Twitter my details so I can have a logon. I find lots of good stuff on Twitter and I would like to not have to give Twitter any traffic by posting here. But the nitter install instructions are completely unintelligible - plus I'm really suspicious of anything that tells me I have to install a program called libsass (Lib's ass?). Can anyone suggest where I can find anything understandable enough for a fairly competent PC user to install Nitter. These are the only real instructions I've found https://github.com/zedeus/nitter. I know this is not a tech help site - but we all have very similar views on avoiding Big Social intrusion - I figure there must be someone using Nitter who found a way. Thanks anyway if not.
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Not having any prior info on nitter installation other than what the github page reads, its clearly something that requires a linux distribution and someone relatively proficient in wrangling with shell and package dependencies specific to the distribution you are using to run it up. Doesnt appear that it supports other platforms.
It looks like it uses and has deps on perl (or at least its regex component libpcre), sass which appears to be the dynamic content generator that produces the pages, and redis which is an in-memory object cache/store thats probably where images, embedded video etc will reside, presumably pulled down to memory rather than being cached out to disk anywhere.
If the above is too hard, there seem to be instances of nitter that other people have set up that they have made available for people to use, so maybe finding one close to where you live (helping with latency etc) is an option.
Lots of EU and US hosted ones, many elsewhere.. presumably you would prefer one in NZ which I dont see at first glance.
https://www.directory.trade-free.org/goods-services/nitter-instances-list/
https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/
Thank you so much for responding 289m above has suggested a great solution.
OMG that is brilliant - I owe you a beer. Thank you so much, sorry I can only uptick once
Oh, and libsass is perfectly fine. A benign library. Its been deprecated now, but older software might still use it.
thank you
I would suggest running the docker version: https://hub.docker.com/r/epenguincom/nitter
thank you - that does seem slightly more digestible, fortunately 289m suggested a simpler way for my modest user skills. appreciate the help though
Wtf. May be you should not use a computer or phone if you’re that paranoid