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Nitter Lives! (infosec.pub)
submitted 15 hours ago by aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@programming.dev
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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 15 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 5 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 4 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 14 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.

[–] Ertain@feddit.online 6 points 13 hours ago

It's great they are keeping it going, for those people who need access to Twitter.

[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Great news!

[–] voxel@feddit.org 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Link?