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  • Glad they were able to get legal help and are back. It’s frustrating to me how it’s so hard to access so many websites nowadays without being logged in. Ridiculous that so much of the web nowadays is just a handful of websites almost all of which seem to have so many restrictions.
    by ViktorRay
  • When I got my first cease and desist my lawyer basically asked me if this is a hill you are willing to die on (i.e. spend enormous amounts of time and money on). I with them luck. I suspect a Go Fund Me announcement coming soon.
    by willmeyers
  • Reading between the lines it appears that the only argument twitter had is that they could not enforce content moderation due to the archival nature of nitter. Pretty cool to see that archival sites cannot get C&D'd that easily!
    by himata4113
  • It is sad that Twitter is basically a private closed gate monopoly that people beg to use instead of developing alternatives like RSS
    by usern20260720
  • Probably the first time I've read a headline of some kind where good news followed something like "Due to legal advice". I hope the best for any service using Nitter, because the split between X and Bluesky is becoming another red vs. blue making life difficult for everyone else.
    by ocd
  • I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me.

    His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...

    by iamflimflam1
  • Somebody needs to figure out how to move millions of people from one platform to other. Otherwise we will never get better platforms and our current techlords will keep getting richer.
    by quaintdev
  • Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important.

    Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work around the counter measures.

    Waiting for the day all the social networks allow api access and become usable again. Maybe we can call it “agent first” to help move things along.

    by codechicago277

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