Following Twitter people via Nitter and Miniflux

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planted: 21/03/2022last tended: 30/04/2022

So I use a self-hosted Nitter and self-hosted Miniflux combo to follow these feeds.

Nitter is an alternative front-end to Twitter, and very helpfully gives you an RSS feed of any account. Miniflux is a minimal RSS reader. So I just plop the Nitter RSS feeds in to Miniflux and read the local stuff there.

Both of them are installed via YunoHost, which makes it a doddle to set up.

1. Issues

Feed fetching from Nitter fails periodically. But I just have to force refresh it a few times and it sorts itself out.

2. [2022-03-21 Mon]

Get 404s and 429s returned from Nitter via Miniflux fairly frequently. I wonder if that's Nitter actually returning that, or Twitter?

3. [2022-03-19 Sat]

Since the RSS-Bridge thing was never much of a success, I've installed Nitter on my YunoHost to get RSS feeds of people I want to follow on Twitter.

I could add the RSS feeds to Aperture, but I would feel kind of bad adding a feed for every single Twitter user I want, it's more load on the Aperture server.

So I've also installed Miniflux via YunoHost too, interested to give that a pop as an RSS reader.

4. Elsewhere

4.1. In my garden

Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).

4.2. In the Agora

4.3. Mentions

Recent changes. Source. Peer Production License.