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Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by beep@piefed.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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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 36 points 1 week ago

that makes twitter even more irrelevant.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

With even truth social and bluesky building on the fediverse tech, twitter was an outdated scrapyard years ago.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week 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

[–] hneerqe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Musk never bought Twitter to make money.

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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?

[–] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

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