• XLE@piefed.social
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    Keep in mind the Nitter developers are associated with Poast, despite attempts to scrub this.

    Poast is:

    a website that has become a haven for racist, antisemitic and misogynist posting also has close ties to Truth Social, the social media site founded by former President Donald Trump, according to a report published Thursday.

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    Maybe time for people to cut the cord. I can’t think of anything people need a Twitter mirror for.

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        I really hope governments start getting sued for this sort of thing, along with using Cloud flare, requiring JavaScript, etc.

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      For things that are on Twitter but not on other websites. Of which there is still a lot. People who rely on Nitter for updates from organisations or people who only have a Twitter presence, will not stop checking those accounts just because Nitter is down. They’d just go on actual Twitter instead. Nitter at least gives them options.

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      It’s useful for generating RSS feeds for artists that are primarily active on there instead of Mastodon/Misskey/Bluesky

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      People are going to continue using Twitter because of network effects and not being committed to an ideal enough to give up access to information and content. But if they can be persuaded to use a frontend, at least Twitter is getting much less out of those people.

      We’re never going to break the monopoly of these companies over the web by relying on the willingness of people to make personal sacrifices, tools like Nitter are really important.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      Yes, but, þere’s value to þe rest of us in resisting strong-arm tactics by companies such as þis. If it’s expensive and lose enough, it’ll be a less effective tool for repression.

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    I don’t understand why the devs don’t just abandon nitter, and have “someone else” start a fork. You can’t fight a bic corporation in court like this. That’s their plan. To make you broke from legal fees.

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    Pretty sure the owner would have to doxx themselves in order to fight this in court, not sure if they’re prepared to do that or just shut it down. Either way many other instances will stay running all over the world and this game of Whack-a-Mole (Streisand Edition) will continue ad infinitum.