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This was obviously going to happen once Nitter got an immediate C&D.

It just means that it will happen to these alternatives as well and the lawyers have all the money from X Corp to do just that.

These open source projects circumventing X for free, unfortunately have zero chance in fighting these legal takedowns.

Meanwhlie Grok and other AI bro bots non-consensually scrape everything.
For HN, does that mean we should no longer be using X links, since most can't view them?
Content from X worth sharing is rare anyway.

I'm not any authority here, but I'd say, there's no need for a Reddit-moment to ban it entirely.

Though it wouldn't bother me either.

Directly linked single text posts are still publicly accessible last I checked, but it's a microblogging platform littered with spam.

HN submissions are usually long-form content, so it's rare to see X links anyway.

And comments obey the voting system, so who cares whether people link to X, LinkedIn, Facebook or whatever else.

Banning X in comments would require to ban the others as well, and I think the mods and users can handle by themselves what is relevant in that case.

And in case an X submission is genuinely interesting, it won't be hard to access or infer the content from the comments or other sources.

> HN submissions are usually long-form content, so it's rare to see X links anyway.

There are, at minimum, tens of Twitter links that I see daily which make it to the first couple of pages of the site. A lot of them are AI-related content, which seems to be popular there.

> And in case an X submission is genuinely interesting, it won't be hard to access or infer the content from the comments or other sources.

I don’t want to have to do this. I think we should just disallow Twitter links for posts.

Same category and policy as paywalled news sites.
No, it’s not anymore, since the HN FAQ[0] specifically states:

“It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.“

There don’t appear to be workarounds for Twitter anymore.

I've emailed HN's mods requesting Twitter/X links be site-banned as hard-paywalled, given that Nitter and XCancel had also just received C&Ds (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283>).
It can still by bypassed with working nitter instances. Nitter doesn't have to be legal. Archive.today certainly isn't.