it’s really sad that so man people lingered on this dogshit website after that fuckhead elon musk bought it
“But I won’t be able to market!!!” The Onion got more coverage after leaving, you have no excuse
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).
Pretty much lmao
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.
I’ll gladly judge someone not willing to leave the nazi pedo site just because they might lose a few bot followers, sorry. Look at Wukko, the guy behind Helium Browser. All he does is whine that people don’t like AI and act condescending towards people who raise issues about the project. It’s really bizarre the way that guy acts.
Losing bot followers is not the same as losing money and your livelihood I hope you can understand the difference between the two.
Twitter is not worth it for your mental health. Looking at how they treat people who aren’t 100% flawless.
Fuck.
Any alternatives?
EDIT: the above is gone, you can use https://carryfeed.com/ for now
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.
Acquire:
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You better start believing in alternatives. You’re on one.
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Bit of a shitty comment mate.
Wasn’t meant that way. Meant it like, everyone slowly realizes how great the joke is, applause builds…
Self host your own nitter instance while you can: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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
Yeah, but the one on that list is what’s been taken down…
What is that? Can you link it? Searching “libdirect” turned up nothing
I believe they’re referring to the browser extension, libredirect
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.
To me it is Twitter and all of twitter’s content is plain trash no matter where you read it from.
Sometimes i look at my shit because it can say something about my health. Despite the content being trash, doesn’t mean there can be no value in being able to access it.
I did write “to me” it means that, I did qualify. Oh well.
Could Xcancel become a search engine with an “AI” that provides all the info in the destination pages? I.E. use the Google model?
I hope this means that Shitter is starting to be in some trouble.
Somebody in Xitter HQ is shitting themselves because Daddy Elon just made a demand that the business must actually be profitable this quarter.
Fucking apartheid beneficiary again.
It’s kinda crazy how little I care. Although I do respect them for having provided the service for those who wanted it.
There’s just nothing on Twitter that I want to read about. Mastodon is all I need for microblogs. I just wish more comic artists posted their content there instead of Twitter/Instagram.
I am not worried about twitter, but I am worried about corporations coming after other platforms; and I especially don’t want youtube getting any ideas.
yeah its kinda funny because its not like folks who used xcancel are going to use x. it just means less traffic overall for them if xcancel traffic goes away.
Could anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?
It displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
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.
And you don’t have to login to view stuff.
Ah, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.
