X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.
Invidious and Redlib are next in Big Tech’s crosshairs as Google and Reddit are surely going to be empowered by this.
Also, should the alternative platforms be worried about getting targeted for simply being competition too? Like, what’s stopping Musk from maliciously patenting microblogging and using that to go after Mastodon, for instance?
Invidious and Redlib are next in Big Tech’s crosshairs as Google and Reddit are surely going to be empowered by this.
Also, should the alternative platforms be worried about getting targeted for simply being competition too? Like, what’s stopping Musk from maliciously patenting microblogging and using that to go after Mastodon, for instance?
Invidious is different in that they are not scraping the content, it’s just a frontend. Redlib and Nitter are both scraping and rehosting the content.
What does Nitter even scrape? They probably only have limited storage. How can they store the whole Twitter posts and comments?