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Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back (itsfoss.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 146 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Would be horrible if loads of people made independent clones/mirrors of that repo while it's up again

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Could you also imagine how terrible it would be if people started also hosting a bunch more nitter instances now it's up? Think of the shareholders!

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh shit, real talk.

[Edit, for clarity,] But without open source search engines, most are at the mercy of the oligarchy.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 133 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A company known for scraping and stealing copyrighted material is butthurt that someone else is scraping their content. "Do as we say not as we do."

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The phrase you want here I beleive is "rules for thee but not for me."

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

Do as we say, not as we do is also broadly used. No need to split hairs.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 108 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"my nitter instance broke containment and started scraping Twitter...."

[–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LMAO, yes! I feel like I should start throwing different bot farm projects at the wall and see what "sticks" enough to get me rich ... Except I don't have a clue how to start

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Start typing into chatgpt, that's a viable business model now apparently

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seems Xcancel maybe too? It shows a Nitter logo though.

Exit: Iys working, but it redirects to a Nitter clone of some kind with a Nitter domain.

Which is great because it means my DNS redirexts on Twitter links work again.

[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago

Firefox reader mode counts as scraping too. Should Firefox block that feature?

[–] tommy_91@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Well, if it dies again, I’ll leave Twitee.co here as a backup

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Was Barbara involved, or did they just fear her?