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Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by mitxela »

numpad0 wrote: post #828
trey-jones wrote: post #221

Regardless of the legality of the service: I always use xcancel instead of X. I don't have a twitter account and I don't want to sign in. I just occasionally want to read what some people had to say about something. Even this is usually a mistake. It's probably better taken as entertainment. My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you.

^ this and the entire drama is just an ad campaign to make the rebranding stick. what is really going to work is to keep calling it Twitter, as it identifies itself, and slowly move over the scene to Bluesky/Mastodon. What demoralize them the most is to show whoever pays for it doesn't matter.

It would be really funny if Elon lost the Twitter trademark due to not using it.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by mitxela »

heavensteeth wrote: post #455
vladgur wrote: post #410

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You want to read what service XYZ offers, but you dont want to do it within the constraints of service XYZ. If you dont want to follow the constraints of service XYZ, you dont have to consume its content. The market would dictate that if X content consumers found it too inconvenient to consume from X and that would result in a significant drop in demand, the X content producers would stop producing their content on X…

Last time I tried creating a Twitter account, I couldn't even complete the sign-up flow before getting automatically banned pending giving them my phone number. After that, I went to like and follow things. My account was then banned again for suspicious activity.

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Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by mitxela »

immibis2 wrote: post #695
j-bos wrote: post #675

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cfaa has broad interpretations

AFAIK it's been interpreted that getting public data while being someone the data holder doesn't like is, unusually, one of the very few things that is not a CFAA violation. Bright Data vs X for example.

You mean vs Meta

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by Nemo_bis »

spicybright wrote: post #668
alightsoul wrote: post #637

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My solution to this is creating bots that repost content on sites like bluesky. The network effect can be overcome because people use a site for the content it has and not necessarily to interact with others Of course I only do it with accounts that are very obviously intended to be public like news and government accounts otherwise x and meta can argue you were violating user privacy or some shit like that

Is there any service that exists to do this for people? Like say you want your Twitter forwarded to your Facebook page and email list, you just punch in the logins and it does the rest? Ideally it would fill in the details like formatting the images/video correctly

There are some examples at https://fedi.tips/crossposting-between-mastodon-and-other-so...

The key point is that you must not post in XTwitter first, but you have to use the crossposter's client as source. Pulling content out of XTwitter, even your own, is onerous.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by mitxela »

vachina wrote: post #877
trey-jones wrote: post #221

Regardless of the legality of the service: I always use xcancel instead of X. I don't have a twitter account and I don't want to sign in. I just occasionally want to read what some people had to say about something. Even this is usually a mistake. It's probably better taken as entertainment. My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you.

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By uncucked you mean anti-cisgender?

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by smaudet »

simondotau wrote: post #66
smaudet wrote: post #51

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And yet, wikipedia is not owned by an evil (incompetent?) oligarch who made his mission to make the platform as shitty as possible... That's what Grok as for. Apples and Oranges...

> And yet, wikipedia is not owned by... That is a red herring. A corporation can act ethically. A charity can act disgracefully. A government can protect people. A neighbourhood association can bully them. A billionare can be philanthropic. A group of children can terrorise a community.

Your "counter" is nonsensical - if you are referring to the concept of a logical "red herring", something to distract by introducing an irrelevant topic, this is not that.

Your comment pertained to your (dislike of) use of wikipedia in contrast to the relevant site (X.com).

My comment pertains to both of the relevant websites you had related (wikipedia is no more related to x.com than governments, neighborhoods, etc. that you have brought up), and to the specific reason why x.com came to be (it's current "authorship"), and how the directly related collary (grok) is not the thing you randomly brought up...

Which if there were a red herring here, it would be wikipedia (as it is not a site whose primary purpose is as a commentary website, nor it used in the same fashion)...

But for the topic you specifically brought up, this is entirely relevant, namely, your dislike of another website, and it's direct relation to the general topic at hand.

As for the rest, further nonsense. I can just as easily flip the subjects in each statement and they will remain true...my (factual) statement stands.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by Cockbrand »

jakevoytko wrote: post #855
voidnullvalue wrote: post #789

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Imginn.com/whateverrouteoninstagram So instagram.com/foo becomes Imginn.com/foo Hope this helps!

I know there are like 5 trillion Instagram viewers. But I've never actually needed to use any of them because there is absolutely nothing so important on Instagram that I must see it. The entire site is optional.

What!? It's the entire, singular purpose and meaning of life for millions of people to make themselves look glamorous on Instagram, and you say it's optional?! /s

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by mitxela »

rany_ wrote: post #493
petcat wrote: post #140

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> 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.

> Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Meanwhile it's OK for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to hack companies all willy-nilly. Mad world!

It's about risk tolerance. Some people stop when there's a hint of legal trouble. Others keep going when there's nothing more to lose.

Re: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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Post by CSMastermind »

ocd wrote: post #61

I don't see how any government or business (especially the former) can justify using X at this point when it doesn't serve the public interest or the interest of customers who deserve at least some choice. It's as unreasonable for them as using Instagram or a dating app for something intended for broad reach and accessibility. I don't particularly like Bluesky, but it's publicly readable and has RSS. Any real solutio…

> I don't see how any government or business (especially the former) can justify using X at this point

If your logic is that some citizens won't be able to read what is posted there, then I assume you similarly object to other social media platforms, newspapers, cable TV stations, etc.

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