Nitter project received cease and desist

Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by nomel on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:33PM (#49443092)

Go ask your mom why she never posts on her own website, but does on closed platform social media. Her answer will be the same as all the people outside of the tech bubble you're in.

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Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by voidUpdate on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:42AM (#49445327)

My mum used to blog on her own website daily, and she's not tech savvy at all

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Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by nomel on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:01AM (#49445466)

Who bought the domain for her, and went through the hoops (usually modifying DNS records) to verify it with the blog provider?

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Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by ura_yukimitsu on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:46AM (#49445780)

I obviously don't know about that person's mom, but a lot of hosting platforms and blog providers will do that for you if you don't want to do it yourself.

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Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by voidUpdate on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:54AM (#49445846)

Wordpress, I believe

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Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by rideontime on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:17AM (#49446993)

This is not a conversation about mothers. The root of this thread was referring to "accessibility of public-facing government communications."

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Re:Nitter project received cease and desist by nomel on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:56PM (#49456448)

> My tolerance for people posting to X without also posting to an open platform is over.

> Public institutions especially.

> There's zero excuse, none.

Maybe it wasn't their intent, but they clearly wrote it as a more general statement, with an additional and specific intolerance to public institutions, which is also how others interpreted it.

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