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Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist (lemmy.nz)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1358432/nitter-project-received-cease-and-desist

Cease and desist

On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

— zedeus, 25 August 2026

Photo source: Official website/instance— Archive.

More info: GitHub issue 1442.

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[-] voidsignal@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

that makes twitter even more irrelevant.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Same thing for XCancel too apparently. I don't use Twitter but I have been using Nitter to read one page this week, now I can't with either

[-] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

I look forward to the day that Twitter becomes Elon’s downfall.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Nothing came of grok generating CP, so I don't know if anything will.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Minnesota passed a law banning nudification using AI. Its not nothing, so we'll see how it pans out.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

only guilliotines will bring his downfall

[-] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago

With even truth social and bluesky building on the fediverse tech, twitter was an outdated scrapyard years ago.

[-] hneerqe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

platforms used to want more users and traffic. we are really in retarded timeline

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Musk never bought Twitter to make money.

[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Is it possible to host a website that only works on Onion network? Not sure what is involved and I imagine the domains would still need to be registered somehow, but could that be used to bypass Musk's legal sanctions on these projects on the net?

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Of course, there are many .onion websites that can't be accessed through the clearnet, that's kinda the point of them.

[-] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

Yes, it's possible. You don't even need to buy a domain.

this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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