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But the real reason why X has been able to shut down Nitter and XCancel is just because those websites aren't going to be able to afford a legal fight, even though they almost certainly would win a lawsuit.
So, is there any way we can contribute to their legal fight against Musk?
I cannot answer this question, but you can always run your own instance scraping X, serving it as a pull through cache, while creating torrents to serve of the archive, all from outside a jurisdiction Musk can get to. If you're paying, you're contributing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481557 (potential durable architecture subthread discussion)
https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift | https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift/blob/master/d... (Reddit example, with the archived datasets available on AcademicTorrents)