XCancel comes back online after X's cease-and-desist
The donation-backed Nitter instance is reachable less than two weeks after X demanded permanent takedowns of public viewers and upstream code.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: XCancel
Why it matters
XCancel's return shows how open-source maintainers can survive a platform crackdown, while exposing the legal and operational risk carried by each public instance operator.
The operator behind XCancel has brought the privacy-oriented X viewer back online less than two weeks after a cease-and-desist from X Corp. pushed XCancel and the open-source project beneath it offline.
XCancel's home page was serving its search interface on September 6th, while its About page identified the running build as version 2026.09.06-ecdfc92. The pages establish that the public instance is reachable again. They do not establish whether every profile, search, timeline and RSS function has returned.…
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