Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by raffael_de on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:41AM (#49574109)

oh, that's great. i thought the project is dead.

how would you host such a nitter instance while avoiding the risk of legal consequences?

since old.reddit is closed for visitors without an account it would be great if there was also a neddit project.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by matsz on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:44AM (#49574129)

Redlib exists - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

It has a few public instances - https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

Seems to work decently well, I've seen it being linked to on HN.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by wanderingpixel on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:59AM (#49574202)

for personal use you can just host one on your internal network

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by code_duck on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:24AM (#49574378)

Like some other things reddit tells visitors, they're basically lying, or at best, being inconsistent. I've tried old reddit here and there in the past month or so and sometimes it says I need an account for "safety", other times, it doesn't.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by zahlman on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:28PM (#49582162)

It is consistently no longer working for me on desktop, FWIW.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by code_duck on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:51AM (#49596707)

I tried it with a browser that probably still has cookies from an account I deleted 4 months ago, with no problem. Then, tried it with a Private mode window - that one asked for a login.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by phrotoma on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:54AM (#49574635)

old.reddit still works anonymously for me. maybe an a/b test?

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by embedding-shape on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:44AM (#49575627)

It's regional, in some countries they force logins, in others not. In some countries, r/all isn't available at all on mobile for example, you get redirected regardless of how you try to access it, but seemingly work in other countries.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by raffael_de on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:03AM (#49574681)

possible that they just changed it for mobile.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by doublerabbit on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:39PM (#49579393)

Dead for me, UK.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by mitxela on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:55AM (#49574639)

You just host it and if you're not big they don't notice you. Nitter is legal btw.

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Re:Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns by miningtcup on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:25PM (#49582723)

Most nitter instances don't do anything to avoid legal trouble from X. They simply hope that X will not go after them. There are some instances which do put in effort to stay anonymous, and they usually do that with a Cloudflare tunnel to hide their server IP and by not posting any personal details online.

For Reddit you can use Redlib (https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib), I host an instance at https://redlib.miningtcup.me/ and people also like https://safereddit.com/.

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