nitter.net is down. xcancel.com may go soon, too. all the respect to the folks at nitter for their services so far, but to be honest, X completely locking itself out of the web is probably a net positive for us all in the long term
Aug 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
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Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching
When Twitter launched, it was originally designed to be just like an open protocol. In the early days, the company eagerly supported third party development, building on that protocol. But, because…
GrapheneOS on Twitter / X
We need more 10Gbps or higher dedicated servers for hosting our OS and app updates. We have North America covered well enough via sponsored servers from ReliableSite in both Miami and Los Angeles and a sponsored server from Xenyth in Toronto but no longer have any left in Europe.— GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) February 12, 2026
Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
NCBI - WWW Error Blocked Diagnostic
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Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decade | Alex Russell | performance.now() 2024
Browser Funding After Search Deals · Issue #55 · Igalia/webengineshackfest
Logistics Date & Time: Tuesday 3rd June at 12:00 CEST (local time) URL: https://meet.jit.si/WEH2025-Funding Notes: https://github.com/Igalia/webengineshackfest/wiki/2025-Browser-Funding-After-S...
Browser Funding After Search Deals · Issue #55 · Igalia/webengineshackfest
Logistics Date & Time: Tuesday 3rd June at 12:00 CEST (local time) URL: https://meet.jit.si/WEH2025-Funding Notes: https://github.com/Igalia/webengineshackfest/wiki/2025-Browser-Funding-After-S...
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while atproto, activitypub, and the open social web community makes the Internet more open.
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pfrazee.leaflet.pub@me.webbeef.org can Beaver-browser be the app that bundles this together? tangled.org/me.webbeef.org/beaver We’ve now also got @blackskyweb.xyz and @mu.social as actively maintained alt-clients with explicit remits of network resilience.
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Ok, a rundown of how we get p2p ATProtocol going: 1. Run *standard* ATProto services, locally 2. Use p2p to holepunch TCP connections 3. Add a thin layer for peering management Bundle all that up in an app, and we have a recipe for adding resilience & scaling to Bluesky. 🧵 teim:
Hoping @letta.com is still on everyones Radar. They somewhat recently added & then massively expanded support for a local mode. w/ app-server mode it seems like virtually all capabilities they advertise can now be self hosted on your own LLM. The product is insanely good! So happy they did this.
