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

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 151 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week 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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