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Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by lucideer »

b212 wrote: post #51
throwfaraway135 wrote: post #41

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True, people praise Threads like they forgot who’s behind it. That aside - never heard of xcancel and it seems great!!!

(I typed out a reply to the above but the gp got flagged into oblivion before I hit submit so I've copy pasted it into the only non-reactionary descendant thread for pastry posterity)

Reply to the original now-flagged comment:

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This.

I might reword your statement to "musk isn't notably worse than...", & I will say twitter has significantly declined in many ways since he took over - both the software quality (many things no longer work - especially e.g. search - & people just frustratingly accept it because broken window theory I guess) & also many of the new features being objectively horrific (like Grok generating CPM on demand without ramifications).

However at its core Twitter is still the same Twitter it always was in terms of the toxic but politically engaged & zeitgeist-relevent live community discussion that takes place there. Reddit may rival it within some narrow selective niches but there's nothing else giving us what Twitter is giving us in terms of being connected to what is happening in international political culture. On both sides of the spectrum: conservative discourse is a lot more broad & active on Twitter than on Truth Social or similar, & outside of weird insular tankie Discord or Matrix servers, Twitter is also where it's at for leftist discourse; Bsky & Mastodon are both deserts.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

#82

Post by egorfine »

immibis wrote: post #75
egorfine wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would I call Twitter something else?

Because it's a completely different website now, even though it happens to have the same user database.

Well... I see your point and I kind of agree with it.

Still let this be my personal rebellion. I will still call it Twitter.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

#83

Post by immibis »

hagbard_c wrote: post #33
wolvoleo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the alternatives aren't much better. Bluesky now does the same BS where they demand an account if you just want to read replies to a tweet or whatever they call that at bluesky. And there is no bskycancel.com yet.

A bigger problem with BS is the rabid and - to use a phrase often used by them - toxic user base which seems to derive energy from pouring its frenzied opinions on whatever Trump, Musk and those in their general surroundings are supposed to be guilty of. If there was ever a case of the pot telling the kettle it is black it is the b.s. pouring out of a substantial fraction of the denizens of BS who have turned the pla…

What have they turned it into? Be specific. You say it turned into "what they accuse X of being" but I don't know what that is.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by tucnak »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #64

- 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

> i have realized lately that x is full of ragebaiting and other algorithmic stuff to make you invested into it

Banality

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by grumpymuppet »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #64

- 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

I have to agree -- I generally avoided Twitter/X over the past decade. I started poking around in there once in a while the last few months and everything time I'm left exasperated. 'I can't believe people believe any of this!!"

And... Then I remember it's rage bait.

Better to just read a book.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by lucideer »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #54
throwfaraway135 wrote: post #41

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> Similarly, Musk isn't really better or worse than the other billionaires/trillioners out there. Gates and Buffet donated millions to public health initiatives. Musk has not. So this is just objectively not true.

It's only "objective" if you accept the beneficiaries of those donations as "objectively" benign.

I don't fully agree with the gp's statement - Musk is at least a little worse than most - but Gates in particular is a terrible counter-example. Especially in light of recent document releases.

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by Dansvidania »

Krssst wrote: post #48
self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

Somewhat related: more than half of my Firefox extensions are to fix YouTube (no shorts, no autoplay in playlists, more videos on the home page, no AI dubs or title translation (plus sponsorblock)). I don't hate it but I hate its progressive enshittification. Though that's quite different from X; while the issues with YouTube are mostly plain old enshittification, the issues I have with X are more political (thus, I…

Which ones do you use?

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by missingdays »

kzrdude wrote: post #45
self_awareness wrote: post #3

This is generally sad. People hate a service, but they depend on it so much they create whole codebases to cope with it. Depending on things we hate is a tragedy. How about just admitting the things you hate? Then you can just drop it and live a happier life. Unless you are of course somehow required/forced to use X, then I'm all for projects like these.

The idea that we can independently decide what to ignore in life is a fallacy I think. Not read regularly sure, but we need to know what's written on X in some cases when it could be important for news or politics.

Is twitter the only way to get the information you need?

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by rob74 »

consz wrote: post #74
kzrdude wrote: post #46

I see that many of you still call it twitter. I get if it's a protest, but current X seems very unlike twitter, so I don't understand why it should be called by that name.

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.

The technology itself hasn't changed, but almost everything else (owner, headcount, moderation, userbase etc. etc., not to mention the name of course) has changed dramatically...

Re: Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

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Post by jacquesm »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #64

- 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

The day the sale to Musk became final is the day I deleted my account and blocked the domains on the firewall here. I have yet to find a single reason to regret that decision and I do not understand local and national authorities as well as other public entities for not doing the same thing. They are giving Musk more power and the only thing that will eventually happen is that he will abuse that power.
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