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jonjomckay / fritter

A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices
https://fritter.cc
MIT License
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Question #60

Closed login22rvp closed 3 years ago

login22rvp commented 3 years ago

Is there any way in which i can use fritter on browser? I wanted to use it on my laptop. If there are are any clients that can help do so then please let me know. I don't want to use twitter directly as it requires login.

dragonhunter056 commented 3 years ago

Do you mean something like Nitter.net?

jonjomckay commented 3 years ago

I think one of the public Nitter instances might be your best shot for now. As far as I can tell Nitter doesn't currently support subscriptions, but you can maybe hack something around it with their RSS feeds?

It might be possible to build Fritter for the Web, using the stuff in Flutter v2.0 but I haven't tried it yet, although if it's anything like #55 then it might just work out of the box!

login22rvp commented 3 years ago

Nitter is good but if only we could have option to subscribe and then view the feed based on subscription. Also having a webapp kind of make it device independent.

iamtalhaasghar commented 3 years ago

Setup Nitter RSS feeds for twitter / instagram accounts you want to follow on a cross-platform freemium/premium rss feeds service like "feedly". Or Setup your own feeds server using "tt-rss" (tiny tiny rss) on a server/computer/raspberry pi. You can then access your feeds through a web login or a tt-rss android client (available on fdroid). Or Use a standalone application like "quiterss" and create your custom feeds. This option, won't allow you to sync feeds across your devices but as long you have a feeds list (.opml) you can import it in all devices and can view your feeds. Not effective but still helpful.

If you are a privacy concious person then RSS feeds is an option you wouldn't want to miss because You can use them to track youtube channel subscriptions without having to login to a google account. As already mentioned, Using rss feeds from nitter you can follow public twitter and instagram accounts.

login22rvp commented 3 years ago

@iamtalhaasghar : thank you for detailed note. It helped. I really liked Feedly, out of all the option suggested by you.

I just wanted to know is Feedly a privacy focused solution. I do understand that it gives me an option to create a account only with email id (temp mail) so as such it feels safe.

iamtalhaasghar commented 3 years ago

I can't say anything about Feedly because I have never used it. You can read their Privacy Policy or look for reviews from other people on internet (may be on reddit, alternativeto.net or any other privacy oriented forum). If you are asking for my opinion, I would rather setup my own feeds server or stick to standalone application because that way I would have control over my data. After reading Feedly's Privacy Policy, If you think, Feedly is not privacy friendly then you can search for privacy focused alternatives on alternativeto.net As a general rule of thumb, I prefer open source software. This might be another reason why I am not using Feedly. NewsBlur (freemium + open source) might be what you are looking for.

login22rvp commented 3 years ago

Thank you sharing alternative ans your opinion . I will explore.