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Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#331
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xcancel.com still works. Isn't that sus?

Not anymore. Here's what shows on their page:

> On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#332
I guess I'll just never read another tweet again.

For the past year or so I've only ever read them (rarely, and only when tipped off about something worth reading from an external source) via xcancel.

Would rather just not read anything on twitter ever again than be forced to the actual site.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#333
post #321
post #293

Yeah, it’s connected to Nitter. I had a number of bookmarked X accounts I would check in on via xcancel. I’ll keep them for now but I assume they’re done for. I have zero desire to ever crate an X account. Keep closing doors, Elon, and watch usage drop even more than it already has.

I don't understand being so emotionally attached to a personality to virtue signal about everything they're connected to. I'm no fan of the guy itself for many reasons, but it's just a service like any other, you either use it or you don't.

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Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#334
post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should respond with a poop emoji, which is what Musk sends to people he doesn't care about.

Musk can afford to be childish about legal challenges because the outcome doesn't really matter to him.

I hate how a jerk like him can tie up the courts with frivolous lawsuits while regular people have their cases slowed down for things that actually matter.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#335
post #315

Move to the fediverse or die. Twitter has been irrelevant for nearly a decade now.

> Twitter has been irrelevant for nearly a decade now. False. X was supposed to die by now, its never been more alive. In fact "Which instance?" is the reason why the fediverse died.

Rumors of the death of the fediverse have been greatly exaggerated. I'm following a vibrant community of nerds, creators, writers, game developers and interesting people on Mastodon right now, and there are numerous other platforms on the fediverse as well, with their own communities. Lots of people have been able to decide on one or more instances for themselves. I don't know why it's such an intractable problem for HN.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#337

A real shame. Even if you put all the political arguments aside it sucks when a site requires you to log in before you can read content on it. For me that’ll mean I just don’t read content on there any more. Which I realise X doesn’t care about, I’m not monetisable anyway. But a shame nonetheless.

Indeed. I’d only reengaged with any Xitter content when I realized I could get it through xcancel. Without a door like this, it’s invisible to me.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#339
post #333
post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand being so emotionally attached to a personality to virtue signal about everything they're connected to. I'm no fan of the guy itself for many reasons, but it's just a service like any other, you either use it or you don't.

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I think we all laugh because he launched the Cybertruck.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#340
post #333
post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand being so emotionally attached to a personality to virtue signal about everything they're connected to. I'm no fan of the guy itself for many reasons, but it's just a service like any other, you either use it or you don't.

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how about he's just a rich asshole who tries to buy his own way and the rest of us are just fed up with rich bullies?
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