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Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by 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.

Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist

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[–] 14 points 3 weeks ago

how dare they view publicly accessible information?!?!

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    [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    How many days until a fork fully replaces nitter?

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    [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    xcancel is still up, afaik.

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    • [–] 4 points 3 weeks 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)

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    [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Rossman?

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    [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 3 points 3 weeks 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.

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 1 point 3 weeks 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?

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