Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back

a month ago by tumbling4986 to c/technology

Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.
scrubbles 151 points a month ago

Would be horrible if loads of people made independent clones/mirrors of that repo while it's up again

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richardisaguy 73 points a month ago

Could you also imagine how terrible it would be if people started also hosting a bunch more nitter instances now it's up? Think of the shareholders!

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partofthevoice 21 points a month ago path: 0 25720291 25725167, hotness: undefined, score: 21, children: 0
bedwyr 2 points a month ago

Oh shit, real talk.

[Edit, for clarity,] But without open source search engines, most are at the mercy of the oligarchy.

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apfelwoiSchoppen 140 points a month ago

A company known for scraping and stealing copyrighted material is butthurt that someone else is scraping their content. "Do as we say not as we do."

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AmyAye 43 points a month ago

The phrase you want here I beleive is "rules for thee but not for me."

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apfelwoiSchoppen 50 points a month ago

Do as we say, not as we do is also broadly used. No need to split hairs.

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tempest 113 points a month ago

"my nitter instance broke containment and started scraping Twitter...."

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madmantis24 9 points a month ago

LMAO, yes! I feel like I should start throwing different bot farm projects at the wall and see what "sticks" enough to get me rich ... Except I don't have a clue how to start

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frongt 8 points a month ago

Start typing into chatgpt, that's a viable business model now apparently

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AmyAye 18 points a month ago

Seems Xcancel maybe too? It shows a Nitter logo though.

Exit: Iys working, but it redirects to a Nitter clone of some kind with a Nitter domain.

Which is great because it means my DNS redirexts on Twitter links work again.

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lemmyng 12 points a month ago

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joyjoy 15 points a month ago

Firefox reader mode counts as scraping too. Should Firefox block that feature?

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Octagon9561 9 points a month ago

Does anyone know if there’s a Nitter phone app?

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Crumpled6273 12 points a month ago path: 0 25720489 25720868, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 0
MimicJar 6 points a month ago

Not an app but if you're using Firefox on Android then LibRedirect will let you point various sites to wherever you want.

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lemmyng 6 points a month ago path: 0 25720489 25721332, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
xela 5 points a month ago path: 0 25720489 25723268, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
burido -4 points a month ago

No, I don't think Nitter works in a way to allow it

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gwl 8 points a month ago

Well you're wrong

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generator 3 points a month ago

Not really an app, only redirects URL from twitter/x to a nitter instance

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tommy_91 5 points a month ago

Well, if it dies again, I’ll leave Twitee.co here as a backup

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Zwuzelmaus 1 point a month ago

Was Barbara involved, or did they just fear her?

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