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

https://itsfoss.com/news/nitter-returns-after-legal-troubles/

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 151 pts · 5d (3 replies)

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

richardisaguy@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 5d

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!

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 5d
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 5d

Oh shit, real talk.

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

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 139 pts · 5d (2 replies)

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."

AmyAye@nord.pub · 43 pts · 5d (1 reply)

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

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 5d

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

tempest@lemmy.ca · 112 pts · 5d (2 replies)

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

madmantis24@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 5d (1 reply)

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

frongt@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 5d

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

AmyAye@nord.pub · 18 pts · 5d (1 reply)

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.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 5d

joyjoy@piefed.social · 15 pts · 5d

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

Octagon9561@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 5d (7 replies)

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

Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 5d
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5d

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

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 5d
xela@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 5d
burido@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 5d (2 replies)

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

gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 5d

Well you're wrong

generator@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 5d

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

tommy_91@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4d

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

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 1 pts · 5d

Was Barbara involved, or did they just fear her?