XCancel service is suspended until further notice

Post by iso1631 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

bpt3 wrote: post #472

asdff wrote: post #447

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I don't understand who all these people are who keep saying 'but I need twitter for my local politicians.' Like really? I have not followed any local politicians or authorities twitter and I still get relevant information. Believe it or not, which you might not if all you do is parrot these comments and I have seen this very comment line of thinking parroted for YEARS about twitter, most people do not follow the city…

> Your utility will post a highly localized service outage that might only affect 1 block of a city or less to their world facing twitter feed? And not simply alert customers via their phone on file as they've done for me forever? It doesn't match your very contrived example specifically, but yes essential services in my major metropolitan area provide more useful and timely information via twitter/X than other sourc…

Post by abletonlive » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC

morningsam wrote: post #33

throwa356262 wrote: post #16

Proposal: Set up a mastodon account that mirrors your (or someone elses) X account. This way people who want can continue using X, and other people can read & refer to their posts without needing to log into X.

I've been wondering why ~everyone hasn't already been doing this, so my guess is that Twitter's API doesn't allow it.

Post by rany_ » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

petcat wrote: post #140

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #127

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On that same page: UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.

> Following legal advice It's impossible to know what this "legal advice" was, but the software project itself is probably fine. The legal risk is always going to be with the person that hosts it with the intention of facilitating the unauthorized access of Twitter's website. Seems like that could run afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Those people should seek their own legal advice.

Post by gfdd » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

demo4567 wrote: post #441

phforms wrote: post #434

I know it’s hard for some people (for understandable reasons), but at some point we have to ignore the X site completely and make politicians and public services/institutions aware that some people do not have or want access to the site. That is the only way anything might change someday. Maybe I’m just being naive here, but what else can you do? xcancel was amazing and I hope they can continue in some way. But since…

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Post by bigyabai » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

tommica wrote: post #484

demo4567 wrote: post #441

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Holy buzzword-salad, Batman! In any case X is a pretty decent place, as long as you mute the topics that get annoying. But the Algorithm is quite good at serving you what you engage with.