Comment by koito17
1 year ago
The important part is the linked GitHub comment from the primary maintainer (and owner) of the Nitter project. To save readers a click
Guest accounts have been removed, they weren't just led to believe that. With real accounts getting rate limited immediately and likely banned, I don't see any path forward for Nitter.
Source: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-191...
The way I interpret this comment is that all public Nitter instances are at risk of becoming inoperable (at their current scale).
> (and owner) of Nitter.
I would say that Nitter as a whole is not owned by anyone, that person is the owner of one of the Nitter instances, in addition to being the primary maintainer of the project as you correctly stated.
I agree with the second part of your comment about all instances being in danger. It is unfortunately a common problem faced by many privacy-respecting frontends (Nitter, Libreddit, Proxigram, Piped etc)
I really meant to say "owner of the Nitter project", but you are nonetheless correct about ownership of Nitter instances. I have edited my post.
It's also factually incorrect to suppose that this person owns the Nitter project, too. There's no CLA so the copyright is held in common by all of the contributors. Free software projects don't have owners, they have maintainers, and the maintainers are a social construction rather than a matter of property law.
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I counted 10 instances recently going down on the status page. There is at least a correlation, probably a cause.