Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
- ID
- 21757
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 05 Sep 2026, 8:04 AM
- Fetched
- 07 Sep 2026, 5:59 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 3.5
- Created
- 07 Sep 2026, 6:02 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
A Nitter fork called 'shitter' hosted on Codeberg now lists more working instances than existed before earlier takedowns, with wiki guides covering deployment via Caddy, Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare Tunnel, and DMCA evasion techniques. Separately, Codeberg has updated its Terms of Use to restrict LLM-generated content and prohibit cryptocurrency projects.
Why it matters
If you rely on Nitter-style frontends for scraping or reading X/Twitter without an account, there are again live instances and self-hosting guides — but Codeberg's new ToU means LLM-generated repos and crypto projects are no longer welcome there, so plan hosting accordingly if either applies to your work.
Discussion angle
Codeberg restricting LLM-generated content is a notable stance from a major FOSS hosting platform — worth discussing where AI-assisted code belongs in open-source commons and whether other forges might follow.