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  sillysaurusx
  I’ve been writing an HN clone that’s literally a clone. It copies all front page posts and comments. I just wanted to say publicly that dang is awesome. Instead of shutting down the idea, he’s been actively helping the project by answering periodic emails and… well, not shutting it down.Not sure what to do with it yet. Maybe I could let users have custom filtering rules. But the point is, companies should support community projects like this, not throw around ToS violation claims like they’d hold up in court.
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  raphman
  Not much detail so far.> We have received cease and desist letters. Awaiting legal advice at the moment, but for now expect all nitter instances to remain down for the foreseeable future.[for all those who - like me - first check the comments before clicking on the link]
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  NoboruWataya
  What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to.Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.
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  seizethecheese
  Political stuff notwithstanding, I used to be an active X user with a large following, but stopped using it because I couldn't configure a client that reliably allowed me to 1) consume a non-algorithmic feed and 2) disable videos and photos in the feed. It's really quite a bummer to be forced into the engagement maximizing app.
• mnls
  Nitter is a great project, way lighter than using Twitter and gets the job done if you want to check few accounts. I have a list of 30 accounts that I'm checking with Nitter and it's absolutely fantastic for this. Oh well, I guess I'll live without following those accounts.
• solarkraft
  This is ultimately X’s problem. Remove the ways to consume its content, remove its relevance.If at all, people should only fully quote content or post screenshots now.
• ThouYS
  "The public town square" where you need an account to lurk
• kelvinjps10
  I would literally stop opening twitter links, for me the utility of twitter is not having an account, but sometimes certain projects or governments and businesses use it for announcements. Before Musk put the login only for seeing tweets and comments, I would use regular twitter and when they did that I switched to nitter. (I had an account for some time but it was a complete was of time)
• Artoooooor
  Remember, corporations may scrap you but you cannot scrap them.
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  tolerance
  In the grand scheme of things I think that this is good.
• refactorAbraxas
  It was only a matter of time before they got in the way of someone committing a crime under the pretense of power.
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  metalcrow
  Anyone familiar with the legal reasons Twitter might be able to prevent sites like nitter from working? I believe scraping is legal but I'm sure there are details that make this different
• tyjen
  Explains why the various links were suggesting to use different instances today. Surprised it lasted this long.
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  suddenlybananas
  It's hardly unique to Twitter but it's so frustrating how much "content" online requires an account. Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok or a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram, I'm barraged with a thousand dark patterns forcing me to log in. Even Reddit is doing it now. I do wonder how much of this is to boost engagement versus another "wonderful" side effect from LLMs since they need training data.
• dredmorbius
  Note that the frequently-used workaround for regwalled Twitter content posted to G+, xcancel.com, is itself a Nitter instance.HN mods may wish to take notice.
• riffic
  as a former (and the best) mod of the Twitter subreddit and having a well attuned sense for how this will all play out it seems that X will very soon be a defunct service. We've all seen these patterns play out before.this wikipedia page will be there for that day:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
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  erulabs
  The open web is dead. The open web remains dead. And we have killed it.I'm actually much less anti-Musk than the average HN commentator but it should be universally agreed here that a small handful of mega-corp websites dominating the majority of content on the web is a bad thing. Nitter was hardly a solution. Federated platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky are "culturally" closed, and "free speech" platforms like X are "technically" closed.IMO we all need to start vibe coding PHP bulletin boards again. 'RETVRN' etc.
• Banditoz
  A lot of instances are showing rate limited too.
• utopiah
  Sad for the project but unsurprising knowing how much SpaceX (sigh) relies on xAI which it mostly a shelf for a neocloud bootstrapped precisely from Twitter/X as a dataset. I imagine they will legally fight to close as much as possible in order to make it look like a valuable dataset that is exclusive.
• emsign
  As long as people are using X and linking to it this pain will just go on. If you have an account there you will not notice how unusable it is for others. And that's by design.
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  numpad0
  xcancel.com still works. Isn't that sus?
• teekert
  Now I have no more ways to read Twitter... So, good?
• g-b-r
  This means that you need to stop posting links to it anywhere, unless you attach to the link everything you find interesting about it (so the discussion too, if it's interesting).Doing otherwise should be banned here.
• danielovichdk
  I am sitting down on Twitter with a leftist quitter... known to be alive.Guitar soloI am sitting down on LinkedIn with a former Kingpin, only fearing for his liiife.LalalalaaaSitting down at Facebook, watching for the craze hooks and starring just with fright.Shaking at my head now, gotta go to bed now, my kids are actually alive...but down on tiktok they tell me how run my life.LalalalalaaaGuitar solo exit
• wrtash
  It is absolutely silly how many people here deny the importance of X for at least journalism and politics. Musk isn't the only one on X.There is a reason these Nitter based gateways exist. If you want to change it, come up with a better alternative.To the people who say there are only "right wing" figures. Really?https://x.com/maxblumenthalhttps://x.com/richimedhursthttps://x.com/ryangrimhttps://x.com/aocIf you only read Musk and AI boosters, you may get a wrong impression.
• nixosbestos
  lol I'd say something about X, but man this place fooking loves X and it didn't go well last time. So, "oh nooooo".
• shevy-java
  This is sad. The government, in doing so, awards e. g. twitter/Musk a de-facto total control over the communication space. I think ALL protocols need to be made fully open, and everyone should be able to write clients adhering these protocols. Any "cease and desist" also must be instantly made public. Right now there is a rogue government running the USA, run by a corrupt orange clown king. All oligarchs who supported this system need to pay compensation money to the other taxpayers.
• tamimio
  Reminder that hosting your own won’t last long either if it got popular, as long as you don’t control your domain, you are always under the mercy of being shutdown.
• HumblyTossed
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  bbg2401
  > You've gotta be kidding me. Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app so this is actually a big problem.If the commenter truly believes it’s a Nazi app, why are they the slightest bit upset to lose access to any version of it?It’s astonishingly easy to not use toxic social media platforms.
• spiderfarmer
  Let a thousand Nitters bloom.