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XCancel also served cease and desist letter from Xitter (xcancel.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 63 points 2 months ago (25 children)

Fuck.

Any alternatives?

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  • [–] 126 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Leave. It sucks since so much info and live news is often stuck there but people need to realize ot is a dying platform, the less traction any of its content gets, the better.

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  • [–] 73 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That's not an option because I'm not on X in the first place. I used xcancel to access information from government agencies and some brands since you cannot browse X without an account, and I deleted mine after Elon Musk bought it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Talk to your local representatives about it.

    In my area they seem to send answer alerts that link to Xitter. And you can't see alert unless you have an account.

    There's no good reason why they shouldn't post those details on their own site, but they won't until people put pressure on them.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well, that also means you can’t verify if a post was actually made or not there. I stay the fuck away from twitter except through nitter if I’m checking a “source”. So now that’s gone I guess

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, genuinely, and 100% seriously, if it is a twitter screenshot, it is probably better to simply disregard its veracity. Twitter screenshots are 80% dunking on random vermin, 30% bot posts, and 20% faked. (Percentages reflect the vent diagram of fuck that is twitter) I used to verify, until I realized that the people there are simply not worth knowing.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Well, the thing is like say you see someone share something outrageous that makes you ask “wait is this real? Did they really say that?” Being able to check veracity is important in the age of disinformation.

    Also since I post a lot of comics I typically try to share the source. Now most artists have moved to other platforms, but their backlog might still be on that shithole. I don’t want to provide a link to that place, so being able to link to a proxy is preferred

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Is there actual evidence it's dying? For a while it seemed like the momentum was there but now I don't hear much about mastodon or even bluesky from normies.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Libdirect has a list of alternative frontends that it can pick from. I've been using it to redirect xitter links so I found that helps when one goes down.

    Edit: I meant to say libredirect

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    https://bird.makeup/ should allow you to follow twitter accounts from the fediverse. Obviously interactions don't make it back to twitter, but could be useful nevertheless. See for example @franceskalbs@bird.makeup. Unfortunately twitter is full of trolls, so many instances block bird.makeup to avid spam from seeping through.

    It's not an alternative to xcancel as it doesn't allow you to read feeds you don't follow, but it's good if you want to keep up to date with what users post.

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