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On 24 August 2026, cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.

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[–] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I just happened to open the repo and saw this. By now I have my own instance running too at https://stopusingx.com/, forked in https://git.prisma.moe/aichan/nitter. I will have to either sync my repo to the original or switch back to it entirely ;)

[–] Nerdulous@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is your instance a publicly usable instance or are you just showing the domain? I don't have any interest in running my own but wouldn't mind having access to one

[–] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago

It is publicly usable, so feel free ;) There are also many others available in https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 9 points 17 hours ago

I set up an instance too, but with an authwall because I don't want to get spammed by bots and hit the rate limit.