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

Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist (i.ibb.co)

submitted 2 months ago by beep@piefed.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it possible to host a website that only works on Onion network? Not sure what is involved and I imagine the domains would still need to be registered somehow, but could that be used to bypass Musk's legal sanctions on these projects on the net?

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[–] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, it's possible. You don't even need to buy a domain.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Of course, there are many .onion websites that can't be accessed through the clearnet, that's kinda the point of them.

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