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[–] 18 points 4 weeks ago

Honestly, considering how unprepared the service seems to have been for a legal fight, now I just hope the devs will get out unscathed.

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    [–] 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (10 children)

    Maybe time for people to cut the cord. I can't think of anything people need a Twitter mirror for.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    It's useful for generating RSS feeds for artists that are primarily active on there instead of Mastodon/Misskey/Bluesky

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    The sooner you stop supporting artists that use Twitter, the sooner they'll switch to a different platform.

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    My “addiction”‽
    i would never do that
    You must have me confused for a capitalist.
    Try reading this as a certified distributed freak.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    For things that are on Twitter but not on other websites. Of which there is still a lot. People who rely on Nitter for updates from organisations or people who only have a Twitter presence, will not stop checking those accounts just because Nitter is down. They'd just go on actual Twitter instead. Nitter at least gives them options.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    People are going to continue using Twitter because of network effects and not being committed to an ideal enough to give up access to information and content. But if they can be persuaded to use a frontend, at least Twitter is getting much less out of those people.

    We're never going to break the monopoly of these companies over the web by relying on the willingness of people to make personal sacrifices, tools like Nitter are really important.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    Yes, but, þere's value to þe rest of us in resisting strong-arm tactics by companies such as þis. If it's expensive and lose enough, it'll be a less effective tool for repression.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Keep in mind the Nitter developers are associated with Poast, despite attempts to scrub this.

    Poast is:

    a website that has become a haven for racist, antisemitic and misogynist posting also has close ties to Truth Social, the social media site founded by former President Donald Trump, according to a report published Thursday.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago*

    Pretty sure the owner would have to doxx themselves in order to fight this in court, not sure if they're prepared to do that or just shut it down. Either way many other instances will stay running all over the world and this game of Whack-a-Mole (Streisand Edition) will continue ad infinitum.

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    literal e begging.

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