Ya, people follows where the content is, also people are lazy, so if you still post on x your followers will not migrate and you will see worse numbers on the new platform, but if you fully stop posting on x your followers will follow you to the new platform (you will not hit old numbers but those are inactive followers anyways).

Lol "that one company that's worth millions of dollars that you remember from your teen years did just fine after they left that website and bought another company that was worth millions with a name we all recognized since our early 20's! If they can do it, why can't you??" You also gloss over the fact that they relied on Facebook and Twitter to get the recognition they ever got in the first place.

Come on now. Surely you understand if you're selling wooden bowls you carve yourself or a local lawn care company and need to have the largest presence for that Facebook and twitter are virtually the only way. Sure there's radio and building your own website but all that costs money and time. If you don't have that you are forced to use Facebook and Twitter.

Unless you like running a business that performs poorly compared to the competitors around you, that is. That is still an option!

I hate twitter and Facebook and reddit and all that shit too its a privacy nightmare but everyone acting like you can do just fine with a business without that without having astronomical cost increases and headaches along the way is lying to themselves and everyone else around them.

I want everyone to leave too but acting like a pompous ass about it and saying "you have no excuse not to succeed without the tools others around you succeeding are using!" Isn't the way to do it.

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.

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

I hope more people take this chance to leave X for good.

If anything of consequence happens on Twitter, you'll hear about it elsewhere.

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.

Xcancel was most useful when someone else posted a link to Twitter. That doesn't stop being useful when you personally don't use the site.

Sadly my state representative pretty much only posts on there and I feel like I can better tailor my complaints and insults towards him when he fucks up by reading his drivel

Appears to work, but it’s riddled with pop up ads that cover the content and are constantly reloading and jumping around. I hope xcancel comes back.

What is that? Can you link it? Searching “libdirect” turned up nothing

Yeah, but the one on that list is what's been taken down…

I did write “to me” it means that, I did qualify. Oh well.

It will still generate traffic to Twitter in order to fetch the tweet. It's an alternative frontend for privacy purposes, so Twitter doesn't get your browser fingerprint, IP address, etc. It's all proxied through xcancel/nitter.

Ah, OK. That's why they are pissed off.

If they copy/paste the whole thing that was on Shitter then i'll read it but if they copied only a part then that's all i'll read.

Nope i deleted it when he announced it because i didn't really need it, otherwise i might have waited a bit and i'm glad i fucked off when i did.