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Nitter receives Cease & Desist from X/Twitter (nitter.net)
submitted 15 hours ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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nitter.net is currently replaced with a message about the C&D until zedeus (lead dev) gets legal advice on how to proceed. Other instances are probably ok for now (or at least until an API break). Not a great sign for anyone else who hosts it, but hopefully it gets resolved without development permanently stopping.

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[–] 52 points 12 hours ago

Scrapping is only okay when we're the ones doing it!

~ Every AI Company ever

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    [–] 69 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Xcancel got the same treatment. Fuck em

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Please don't fuck Elon Musk, he's already got too many kids :P (and already mistreats some of them)

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    • [–] 104 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    always remember to clone/mirror repositories in other places folks. Lawyers got onto Github and Github happily takes things down unless all of the internet comes to push back. Mirror your favorite projects to codeberg, forgejo, gitea, wherever. You never know when someone will be forced to take that project you love down.

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  • [–] 15 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    If Lemmy has a retweet function, I'd retweet your comment. More people need to see this.

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  • [–] 16 points 14 hours ago

    Yeah anytime I see code that I use that interacts with a third party I mirror it to be safe. Repos are small. Especially if the third party isn't a tech company, like most home assistant things. They are incredibly hostile and letigous against open source projects that have the audacity to make their products better.

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    • [–] 21 points 12 hours ago

    Uh oh, looks like someone's AI company is running out of money and needs people back on Twitter. 😭

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    [–] 46 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Sounds like Elon's Bitter.

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    • [–] 30 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    Some alternatives (for now): https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances, https://status.d420.de/

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    • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    Imagine being so petty...

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    [–] 0 points 10 hours ago

    deserved for using twitter

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    [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Oh, isn’t bitter that site curating a list of content for building AI models? I seem to recall that and hope it works except then from any laws, right?

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