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Are there other instances available? X can't ban them all. I wish legal issues wouldn’t exist for this project and X would stop attacking projects that provide

Are there other instances available? X can't ban them all. I wish legal issues wouldn’t exist for this project and X would stop attacking projects that provide information for free. Privacy is important more than ever as many of us don't want to login into X.

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unfocso 17d ago
There's plenty of other instances running on nitter, some secret/invite only (and as such more chance to fly under the radar). The code is open source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter albeit X DMCA'd the repo.
- amiga386 17d ago
  > X DMCA'd the repo. No they didn't, or you'd see the text "Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown." and wouldn't have access to the repo at all. Instead you have full access to it, its author having merely archived it out of caution. No reference to nitter in https://github.com/github/dmca/ https://github.com/github/dmca/
  - embedding-shape 17d ago
    Seems you're right. They have done this in the past though, so wouldn't exactly be a surprise. Here is what the "free speech" platform have censored previously on GitHub: > X Corp. employs various technical protection measures to control access to its copyrighted works, including those at issue here (API schemas and platform content): e.g., official X Corp. API key/OAuth authentication, rate-limiting mechanisms, proprietary behavioral pattern detection, TLS fingerprint validation, and x-clienttransaction-id checks. The repository referenced above appears specifically designed to circumvent these measures using browser cookies, curl_cffi TLS impersonation, fake headers, request jitter, and reverse-engineered GraphQL queries. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/b2c88bad7dd771dc7d1842ff81529b86c701f296/2026/03/2026-03-27-x-corp.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/b2c88bad7dd771dc7d1842ff...
    - forestry 17d ago
      I thought the US courts decided that APIs aren’t copyrightable, and the rest of it is not their content.
      - embedding-shape 17d ago
        Does things like that even matter anymore? Lots of things shouldn't be what they are, and vice-versa, yet no one seem to do anything. If Microsoft listens to the demands of XCorp, then that's the reality, regardless of what courts say.
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immibis2 17d ago
https://status.d402.de/ https://status.d402.de/ and many other index pages Consider running your own to spread out the HN/Slashdot effect.
- jwilk 17d ago
  ITYM https://status.d420.de/ https://status.d420.de/
  - immibis2 17d ago
    yes, sorry
yyyk 17d ago
>Are there other instances available? It's been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 ("Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns")

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unfocso 17d ago

There's plenty of other instances running on nitter, some secret/invite only (and as such more chance to fly under the radar). The code is open source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter albeit X DMCA'd the repo.

amiga386 17d ago
> X DMCA'd the repo. No they didn't, or you'd see the text "Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown." and wouldn't have access to the repo at all. Instead you have full access to it, its author having merely archived it out of caution. No reference to nitter in https://github.com/github/dmca/ https://github.com/github/dmca/
- embedding-shape 17d ago
  Seems you're right. They have done this in the past though, so wouldn't exactly be a surprise. Here is what the "free speech" platform have censored previously on GitHub: > X Corp. employs various technical protection measures to control access to its copyrighted works, including those at issue here (API schemas and platform content): e.g., official X Corp. API key/OAuth authentication, rate-limiting mechanisms, proprietary behavioral pattern detection, TLS fingerprint validation, and x-clienttransaction-id checks. The repository referenced above appears specifically designed to circumvent these measures using browser cookies, curl_cffi TLS impersonation, fake headers, request jitter, and reverse-engineered GraphQL queries. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/b2c88bad7dd771dc7d1842ff81529b86c701f296/2026/03/2026-03-27-x-corp.md https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/b2c88bad7dd771dc7d1842ff...
  - forestry 17d ago
    I thought the US courts decided that APIs aren’t copyrightable, and the rest of it is not their content.
    - embedding-shape 17d ago
      Does things like that even matter anymore? Lots of things shouldn't be what they are, and vice-versa, yet no one seem to do anything. If Microsoft listens to the demands of XCorp, then that's the reality, regardless of what courts say.

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immibis2 17d ago

https://status.d402.de/ https://status.d402.de/ and many other index pages Consider running your own to spread out the HN/Slashdot effect.

jwilk 17d ago
ITYM https://status.d420.de/ https://status.d420.de/
- immibis2 17d ago
  yes, sorry

yyyk 17d ago

>Are there other instances available? It's been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 ("Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns")