Alex Gleason on Nostr: To mirror all Twitter/X posts to Nostr using their new paid API, it would cost $12.5 ...
To mirror all Twitter/X posts to Nostr using their new paid API, it would cost $12.5 million dollars per month. I did the math. This is probably why they wanted to shut down Nitter.
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