Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice
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Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly
The Nitter project will continue "following legal advice," meaning XCancel, a public service built on its open source code, is back online.
As of September 7, nitter.net displayed the announcement: "Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly." XCancel, a public instance built on Nitter, was operational again.
Nitter is a free, open source front end for reading posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter before it was acquired and rebranded by self-described "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk. It requires no X account and, according to the project's repository, offers "zero ads" with "no JavaScript required."
However, using Nitter or an instance based on it, such as XCancel, can feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole, with frequent changes required whenever...
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