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Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#3
Not much detail so far.

> We have received cease and desist letters. Awaiting legal advice at the moment, but for now expect all nitter instances to remain down for the foreseeable future.

[for all those who - like me - first check the comments before clicking on the link]

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#5
> You've gotta be kidding me. Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app so this is actually a big problem.

If the commenter truly believes it’s a Nazi app, why are they the slightest bit upset to lose access to any version of it?

It’s astonishingly easy to not use toxic social media platforms.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#6
What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to.

Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#7
It's hardly unique to Twitter but it's so frustrating how much "content" online requires an account. Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok or a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram, I'm barraged with a thousand dark patterns forcing me to log in. Even Reddit is doing it now. I do wonder how much of this is to boost engagement versus another "wonderful" side effect from LLMs since they need training data.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#8
post #5

> You've gotta be kidding me. Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app so this is actually a big problem. If the commenter truly believes it’s a Nazi app, why are they the slightest bit upset to lose access to any version of it? It’s astonishingly easy to not use toxic social media platforms.

You can want to read something someone else has posted without giving your data to the owner of Twitter.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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post #5

> You've gotta be kidding me. Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app so this is actually a big problem. If the commenter truly believes it’s a Nazi app, why are they the slightest bit upset to lose access to any version of it? It’s astonishingly easy to not use toxic social media platforms.

I would not say astonishingly as most people are full-on addicted to these platform and addictions are hard to kick, but definitely doable (9 years for me)
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