Replace all tracking (short)links + use Nitter and Invidious

[lapineige]

Hello,

In order to protect the privacy of Fediverse users, it would be great to implement the following improvements:

• Replace any twitter tracking link by the final link. The same goes for any short link in the original tweet. That is the most transparent and maybe the most important thing for the end user.
• Replace twitter links by a link to a Nitter instance https://github.com/zedeus/nitter. For instance https://nitter.net/, but it would be better to use another instance (or randomly use an instance in a list ?) to help decentralising this service. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
• Replace youtube videos links by a link to an Invidious instance. Again it'd be better to pick a different instance than the official one: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/Invidious-Instances. The current issue is the stability, most of them are blocked frequently.

This would reduce tracking, allow people who don't know about Nitter and Invidious to be protected by default, and also reduce the amount of data transported across the network and maybe reduce page loading time.

Thank you in advance

[lelibreauquotidien]

I create a fork with nitter integration: https://github.com/lelibreauquotidien/tootbot

[cquest]

fc049ba replaces twitter links to nitter ones.

I have no idea how stable nitter instances will be in the long term. I'm considering having a nitter/invidious redirector service running together with my mastodon instance to make sure links will still be functionnal in the future.

[lapineige]

One option would be to also include the original link.
Yet this means using more space... but we have plenty of it compared to Twitter anyway ?