I hope this means that Shitter is starting to be in some trouble.
Fuck.
Any alternatives?
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.
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
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.
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
I hope more people take this chance to leave X for good.
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.
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.
twitee.co still works as of now.
Acquire:
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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
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.
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.
However it generates only a fraction of the traffic that would otherwise reach twitter, and also makes it useless as it cannot be data harvested.
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.
