Not much detail so far.<p>> 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.<p>[for all those who - like me - first check the comments before clicking on the link]
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.<p>Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.
The biggest social networks can only die slowly. They have too much momentum for the the type of sudden exodus that was possible when the internet had not yet absorbed the entire population.
Depends on the algos. My jp account sees none of that, mostly news, jokes and some random what’s happening in parts of Japan.<p>NA tuned account has more of what you said.
There's people from all walks of life and all corners of the internet on there still, good and bad. Twitter was always a darned mess, the only difference now is you can't just report people and bully them off the site.<p>Contrast to me trying to open BlueSky, and seeing death threats and other insane things. I've also heard (though never personally seen, nor do I want to) that BlueSky has a CSAM problem. Those two factors alone kept me from even trying it out.<p>What's really weird is there were a ton of claims that disappeared, about how X was full of bots, but X is the opposite of full of bots. Maybe there's one or another, but they're highly under the radar, X has improved their bot problem drastically.<p>Edit (tweaked some words, and wanted to add):<p>Then there was Threads, I am not in any way interested in "New Twitter" by Mark Zuckerberg, no thanks.
If you look at the replies to basically any big post, you'll see all the blue checkmark bots in there. Usually just copying posts, sometimes doing a weird ai summary of the original post in a way that isn't actually replying to it.<p>I've got no idea if they're somehow making money off it or what's up
I really can't deal with BlueSky. I wanted to because I had a lot of good "starter packs" for NeoVim and OCaml development. Nerd stuff is the reason I visit these sites. The problem is, I start following people and it almost always turns into politics. I may even AGREE with the person's politics but I hate reading and talking about it. God forbid I ever disagree.<p>Funny thing though. I've heard the claims of "CSAM on Twitter" and now "CSAM on BlueSky". I've never had any of that ransomly show up. I do still have 2 or so random follows from clip-art female avatars with no tweets - per week. I've never quite figured out how that scam is supposed to work. I used to block 'em, now I ignore 'em.
Never had issues with bluesky, but i'm a lurker and I have a llm filtering (here on HN, X, bluesky, reddit etc) which removes political stuff and boosts stuff I likely will like.
Bluesky has a weed problem, but eventually you can tune the algorithm to only show you thirty or forty posts about weed every day.
I genuinely can't take this comment seriously if you think BlueSky has a CSAM and bullying problem while staying on X.
Yeah, there were numerous news reports about the AI CSAM problem on X<p>- June 2025: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-accounts-peddle-child-abuse-musk-material-thorn-cuts-ties-rcna212107" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-accounts-peddle-chi...</a><p>- Jan 2026: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/musk-grok-ai-bot-safeguard-sexualized-images-children.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/musk-grok-ai-bot-safeguard-s...</a><p>- Mar 2026: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/17/x-csam-child-abuse-material-grok-australian-online-safety-regulator-ntwnfb" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/17/x-csam-ch...</a>
> I've also heard (though never personally seen, nor do I want to) that BlueSky has a CSAM problem.<p>I left X permanently because the unfathomable amount of CSAM being generated by Grok, without seeing it myself, sickened me to the point of no return.<p>I don’t use Bluesky but it seems to me that if this is a real concern to you, then you should have left X as well.
> There's people from all walks of life and all corners of the internet on there still, good and bad.<p>No, not really, it's only people who are fine or apathetic about the CEO of that platform doing a Nazi salute in front of cameras, twice. It is a very specific kind of people.
Not really.<p>I mean you'd wish that that was the case, but the reality is even bleaker. The "specific kind" is not all that specific.<p>Like yeah, of course, the crypto, AI and business grifters are a lot louder on Twitter now, but.. wouldn't say that they're not on HN as well, so.<p>I mean I understand that you would want to shame people into leaving that platform, but to feel shame you first need to be present in the room and conversation. Apathic people on autopilot are not even taking part in the conversation you'd like to have. They just scroll.
I would love to see a visual representation of what you think those sort of people look like.
It's a social experiment about [variable] universal basic income
Guess one has to, because there are just too many people on there. I don't like it but what can I do. What I hate the most is that states/countries, prime ministers and kings post on there. And that the emergency services of some countries have that as primary channel. I understand cross posting to the most popular social channels, but primary? That SHOULD be a local channel, not some dystopian shit hole you could be banned from randomly.
All journalists and politicians are there, including left wing. If you want to know e.g. what the Prime Minister of Pakistan <i>really</i> said instead of some news spin, you have to read his tweets.<p>It is an elite club, and Musk wants you to pay for it.<p>I don't know why it is legal for EU politicians to use this walled garden for important messages.<p>Someone outside of the US jurisdiction (China?) has to keep xcancel.com running.
Linking to X is less useful than it used to be.
Racism, bigotry, a right-wing echo chamber and a vehicle for the generation of non-consensual deep fakes of women.
I would literally stop opening twitter links, for me the utility of twitter is not having an account, but sometimes certain projects or governments and businesses use it for announcements. Before Musk put the login only for seeing tweets and comments, I would use regular twitter and when they did that I switched to nitter. (I had an account for some time but it was a complete was of time)
In the grand scheme of things I think that this is good.
Sad for the project but unsurprising knowing how much SpaceX (sigh) relies on xAI which it mostly a shelf for a neocloud bootstrapped precisely from Twitter/X as a dataset. I imagine they will legally fight to close as much as possible in order to make it look like a valuable dataset that is exclusive.
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.
libredirect is very good for these kinda of things. But the platforms keep trying to make it stop working so is a constant battle of the frontents to build workarounds
Twitter was doing stupid growth hacks, like requiring login to view replies, even before AI scrapers were a concern. (And I suspect many of the scrapers are just using logged-in accounts.)
It's tracking and data harvesting, always is
xcancel.com still works. Isn't that sus?
A lot of instances are showing rate limited too.
Now I have no more ways to read Twitter... So, good?
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.
> You've gotta be kidding me. Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app so this is actually a big problem.<p>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?<p>It’s astonishingly easy to not use toxic social media platforms.
I can't even read specific public transport updates in my city because they only post those to Twitter, only vague messages on their own website.
I do not use Twitter but some people who do interesting things somehow still do and only post about them there. It's all so tiring.
my guess is many people use nitter to do automatic scraping of Twitter for various projects, i.e. they can't believe they "have" to do it because so many people still use Twitter.
You answered your own question.<p>> Unfortunately everyone still uses the Nazi app<p>If your local town government for example only posts city updates to twitter, your options are to make a twitter account, use something like nitter, or miss out on updates.
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)
You can want to read something someone else has posted without giving your data to the owner of Twitter.
what's so special about twitter anyway. I could write one in a weekend.<p>IYKYK