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Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist (i.ibb.co)

submitted 4 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 14 points 4 days ago

how dare they view publicly accessible information?!?!

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

To me, I could care less. Twitter is nothing but a shell of its former self full of hate and derision now. Who needs it or any spawns.

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Rossman?

[–] 52fighters@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

How many days until a fork fully replaces nitter?

[–] jcorvera@quokk.au 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

xcancel is still up, afaik.

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sadly, it is not.

[–] jcorvera@quokk.au 2 points 3 days ago

Oh shit, that screen was not there when I last checked.

[–] oblivion96@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

Not for me

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Is he US-based?
Because, if not, does he really need to comply?

(Note: assuming 'he', because I've only ever met one bloke with the handle Zedeus and he was a he... sorry for being obtuse)

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This has to be a slap suit right? Surely there's no merit to this?

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago

Merit does not matter in the land of Corporate.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago

So, what's the process from now on? Do we need a community of people who have Twitter accounts and repost tweets (or better, the link sources in the case of news etc) to the Fediverse?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

swear to god if this affects the hasanabirepeater bot on bluesky...

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 1 points 4 days ago

why isn't there a c/hasanabirepeater or peertube ftm‽