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Nitter Lives! (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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On 24 August 2026, cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.

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[–] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just happened to open the repo and saw this. By now I have my own instance running too at https://stopusingx.com/, forked in https://git.prisma.moe/aichan/nitter. I will have to either sync my repo to the original or switch back to it entirely ;)

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 11 points 3 days ago

I set up an instance too, but with an authwall because I don't want to get spammed by bots and hit the rate limit.

[–] Nerdulous@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is your instance a publicly usable instance or are you just showing the domain? I don't have any interest in running my own but wouldn't mind having access to one

[–] tommy_91@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

If you just want a public viewer and don’t need to host Nitter yourself, I built Twitter viewer for that. No account required, although cached posts may not always be fully up to date.

[–] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

It is publicly usable, so feel free ;) There are also many others available in https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I haven't so much as looked at that steaming puddle of Xcrement in the last decade+, but I might just give Nitter a whirl, just because. 😋

[–] OmegaSunkey@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago

i love nitter, its so fast. I'll always welcome simple, non-reactive websites

[–] Ertain@feddit.online 9 points 3 days ago

It's great they are keeping it going, for those people who need access to Twitter.

[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Great news!

[–] voxel@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Link?