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.

  • xianjam@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Don’t want to get the project owner in trouble, but I think there is room for simply moving the project’s jurisdiction, changing hands, and renaming the project.

    Honestly, is anyone of value still on Twitter? Everyone I known has left. I don’t think I’ve ever needed to view something on there in the past few years.

  • Syndication@lemmy.today
    101·
    2 days ago

    I won’t visit X at all if there ends up being no alternatives. Not that it really means much, since I don’t actively visit the site anyways unless it’s a link sent to me or a link I’ve seen posted on Lemmy.

  • rhpp@programming.dev
    10·
    2 days ago

    XCancel still seems to work for now, let’s see how long it lasts.

    EDIT: Welp, it went down too now.

    On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
    The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
    We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now.
    Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.