alt Hacker NewsNitter project received cease and desist
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It is absolutely silly how many people here deny the importance of X for at least journalism and politics. Musk isn't the only one on X.
There is a reason these Nitter based gateways exist. If you want to change it, come up with a better alternative.
To the people who say there are only "right wing" figures. Really?
If you only read Musk and AI boosters, you may get a wrong impression.
Let a thousand Nitters bloom.
Reminder that hosting your own won’t last long either if it got popular, as long as you don’t control your domain, you are always under the mercy of being shutdown.
This is sad. The government, in doing so, awards e. g. twitter/Musk a de-facto total control over the communication space. I think ALL protocols need to be made fully open, and everyone should be able to write clients adhering these protocols. Any "cease and desist" also must be instantly made public. Right now there is a rogue government running the USA, run by a corrupt orange clown king. All oligarchs who supported this system need to pay compensation money to the other taxpayers.
X makes a platform available. People choose to post on it knowing full well how it works. X makes money by running ads, charging for subscriptions and tracking users.
To me it sounds reasonable that you can't just take that content and repost it without their or the author of the post explicit permission. It sounds like a fair use case and copying the whole content is not that.
Now there are technical details: "are they really copying or generating on the fly for the user" but I don't think it matters. At the end of the day the content belongs to either X or their users. I think arguments against that are arguments against copyright in general.
If I ever posted something on X my expectations would be that if people want to read it they need to obey X's terms and conditions. I wouldn't be happy if there was a platform copying it somewhere else. If I wanted my post to be public I would post on freely available public website (and then maybe repost or link it from my X's account).
> 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.
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I am sitting down on Twitter with a leftist quitter... known to be alive.
Guitar solo
I am sitting down on LinkedIn with a former Kingpin, only fearing for his liiife.
Lalalalaaa
Sitting down at Facebook, watching for the craze hooks and starring just with fright.
Shaking at my head now, gotta go to bed now, my kids are actually alive...but down on tiktok they tell me how run my life.
Lalalalalaaa
Guitar solo exit
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lol I'd say something about X, but man this place fooking loves X and it didn't go well last time. So, "oh nooooo".
I had twitter since the beginning, it was a very nice place until Musk.
as a former (and the best) mod of the Twitter subreddit and having a well attuned sense for how this will all play out it seems that X will very soon be a defunct service. We've all seen these patterns play out before.
this wikipedia page will be there for that day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...