Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist
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.
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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)
How many days until a fork fully replaces nitter?
This has to be a slap suit right? Surely there's no merit to this?
Merit does not matter in the land of Corporate.
how dare they view publicly accessible information?!?!
xcancel is still up, afaik.
Not for me
Sadly, it is not.
swear to god if this affects the hasanabirepeater bot on bluesky...
why isn't there a c/hasanabirepeater or peertube ftm‽