I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me.

His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...

Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important.

Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work around the counter measures.

Waiting for the day all the social networks allow api access and become usable again. Maybe we can call it “agent first” to help move things along.

So X(.ai) can scrape the entire web, but nobody can scrape X. Makes sense.

The software project itself is probably fine, but the legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of facilitating the unauthorized access of Twitter's website. Seems like that could run afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Those people should seek their own legal advice.

When I got my first cease and desist my lawyer basically asked me if this is a hill you are willing to die on (i.e. spend enormous amounts of time and money on). I with them luck. I suspect a Go Fund Me announcement coming soon.

It'll be very funny if everything associated with Twitter branding would survive and the other one just didn't

It is sad that Twitter is basically a private closed gate monopoly that people beg to use instead of developing alternatives like RSS

Probably the first time I've read a headline of some kind where good news followed something like "Due to legal advice". I hope the best for any service using Nitter, because the split between X and Bluesky is becoming another red vs. blue making life difficult for everyone else.

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