Wow, a useful and relevant post. Shame that it's connected to Elon Musk and must therefore be flagged here :/
Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're either over- or underthinking this. I don't want to have an X account, but I do sometimes want to follow a link to a specific tweet and be able to view the surrounding context. So sites like xcancel and nitter are useful to me.
So, in other words, you want the cargo, but without the tiring "pay for it" aspect?
> So, in other words, you want the cargo, but without the tiring "pay for it" aspect?
I'm not trying to be difficult, but I'm not quite sure what this means! In literal terms, I want the ability to read tweets, see threads and replies, and view a user's tweets chronologically, and I don't think the second and third things are possible on X.com without an account. I don't want an account for various reasons, including that I don't want any temptation to become a regular or active user.
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#133- i ll tell you an even better option, dont! - like honestly, dont. i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it. - you ll never have even an ounce of mind the moment you open anything on x - good time to make a new year resolution, delete your account on x and say a permanent goodbye. they are trying hard to lure you back in
Don't look at the "For you" curated feed. If you only look at the "Following" feed and you follow sane, smart people, then your experience on X will be much better.
Why would sane, smart people still be on twitter?
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#134Why was it flagged ?
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#135I deleted my Twitter right before Elon bought it. Aside from political or social reasons, X is a terrible platform. More often than not, I get a blank page, something didn't load. If I get content, it's (randomly) behind a registration-wall. Or it shows confusing cookie banners that half the time don't even work. (Dev console full of js errors) So I don't even bother anymore. This service is technically so fragile an…
I find the combination of a Grok button on every post to real time fact check it, along with eventual notifications when a Community Note is added to something you previously interacted with goes a long way to making it the most trustable of all social media platforms. I don’t see any similar attempts to transparently live fact check on any other platform.
Why does "a Grok button on every post to real time fact check it" increase your trust, given the obvious and open control Musk has over it? When Grok disagreed with him, he kept saying they'd "fix" it, and that's not to mention that infamous "white genocide" issue. It's undeniable that Musk is using his control to align Grok with his own opinions.
How does that not decrease your trust? I can't understand the thought process.
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#136https://libredirect.github.io/ does this for many other services and has a good reputation
They should really update those links. Could be a coincidence but about half seemed to redirect me to a service that was discontinued or continued under a different name.
Ah I hadn't realised development is falling behind a bit (addon last released 6 months ago, though it's possible it doesn't need updating I guess)
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
In what way is it different? They increased the character limit? It's still a short form reddit-style message board, same as it was 3 years ago.
Reddit-style? Why would you say reddit style, and not facebook-style, mastodon-style, or bluesky-style? At least Reddit is arranded thematically, and Twitter is arranged around individuals; this is quite a significant difference.
Because the two styles are reddit style and bulletinBB style in my head. Those other three you mentioned are reddit style, too.
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#138I deleted my Twitter right before Elon bought it. Aside from political or social reasons, X is a terrible platform. More often than not, I get a blank page, something didn't load. If I get content, it's (randomly) behind a registration-wall. Or it shows confusing cookie banners that half the time don't even work. (Dev console full of js errors) So I don't even bother anymore. This service is technically so fragile an…
I find the combination of a Grok button on every post to real time fact check it, along with eventual notifications when a Community Note is added to something you previously interacted with goes a long way to making it the most trustable of all social media platforms. I don’t see any similar attempts to transparently live fact check on any other platform.
If you are trusting Grok to "fact check", you have already been bamboozled.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit-style? Why would you say reddit style, and not facebook-style, mastodon-style, or bluesky-style? At least Reddit is arranded thematically, and Twitter is arranged around individuals; this is quite a significant difference.
Because the two styles are reddit style and bulletinBB style in my head. Those other three you mentioned are reddit style, too.
Interesting. To me, reddit is much closer to bulletinBB (as I remember from phpBB) than twitter. Reddit is like Hacker News in that regard.
What makes the reddit style more similar to Twitter than to bulletin board, in your mind? And do we have a modern example of the bulletinBB style since phpBB?
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because the two styles are reddit style and bulletinBB style in my head. Those other three you mentioned are reddit style, too.
Interesting. To me, reddit is much closer to bulletinBB (as I remember from phpBB) than twitter. Reddit is like Hacker News in that regard. What makes the reddit style more similar to Twitter than to bulletin board, in your mind? And do we have a modern example of the bulletinBB style since phpBB?
The main difference, in my mind, is that you reply directly to people vs posts are in one direct stream.
Hacker news is reddit style, too (by far the closest of those listed). Somethingawful is an example of a BulletinBB style board in 2026.