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Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Post by stvltvs »

SaltyBackendGuy wrote: post #950
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #910

I stopped virtually all social media (except commenting on YouTube videos and telling people they're wrong in HN comments) years ago. No twitter, no mastadon, no bsky, no facebook. I keep hearing myspace is going to re-launch and I would consider getting an account there for the purposes of irony. But... instead of tweeting for an hour a day, I spend that hour reading long form dead tree format texts. I'm not saying…

Same. My last vice is Reddit, which I really need to quit.

I boycotted with the API nonsense a few years ago and noticed I didn't miss it that much. Haven't really been back since. When a web search leads me back, it seems to have gone downhill with lots of low effort and bot-ish posts.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Post by JeremyNT »

dist-epoch wrote: post #929
maelito wrote: post #903

Just switch to Bsky.app or mu.social (european version, same global network).

How do I follow AI news or discussions on Bsky? It's basically viewed and treated there as worse than nazi propaganda.

Follow AI people and watch their reposts.

Starter packs can help bootstrap it. Perhaps this? [0]

A lot of the biggest boosters of AI are aligned with the politics of Musk, and so they're just going to stay on X. This means the AI discourse is far less on bsky.

[0] https://blueskystarterpack.com/starter-packs/@nimobeeren.com...

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Post by stvltvs »

jubilanti wrote: post #955
sliqqq wrote: post #927

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? X is one of the rare uncensored publishing / communication networks we have. Do you prefer living in a highly regulated, censored pre-gated world where information is hidden if somebody "feels offended" by it or state / ngo actors dont want something to go public? The brainwashing against free, open, uncensored and community-corrected platforms is crazy.

If X is so open, why do I have to register an account to see practically anything? Why did Elon ban PaulG and many for posting a link to Mastodon? Why did so many get suspended for sharing the location of Elon's private jet? Why did Elon ban a journalist after reporting a dossier on JD Vance? https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-dossier-leak-hack-iran-ken... Why did Elon ban a journalist who interviewed the guy who hack…

Censorship of things I don't like or don't care about doesn't count. /s

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#974

Post by arprocter »

matesz wrote: post #892

Ex-x account holder here. Even if the world is going to fall and details about this even will be accessible exclusively behind X login wall, I am not setting up the account there again, NO WAY. I wholeheartedly recommend you do the same - remove your account and forget about it. Almost certainly you won't miss it, as I didn't miss it. And there is a big chance you will get a big sight of relief, as I did. If you real…

Thanks for the site - Whac-A-Mole it is, then

Fortunately their URLs aren't obfuscated, so it works with Redirector

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#975

Post by unsupp0rted »

matesz wrote: post #892

Ex-x account holder here. Even if the world is going to fall and details about this even will be accessible exclusively behind X login wall, I am not setting up the account there again, NO WAY. I wholeheartedly recommend you do the same - remove your account and forget about it. Almost certainly you won't miss it, as I didn't miss it. And there is a big chance you will get a big sight of relief, as I did. If you real…

I get loads of value from it and when I'm away I do miss it, because I'm missing information I'd rather have.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#976

Post by nickburns »

SaltyBackendGuy wrote: post #950
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #910

I stopped virtually all social media (except commenting on YouTube videos and telling people they're wrong in HN comments) years ago. No twitter, no mastadon, no bsky, no facebook. I keep hearing myspace is going to re-launch and I would consider getting an account there for the purposes of irony. But... instead of tweeting for an hour a day, I spend that hour reading long form dead tree format texts. I'm not saying…

Same. My last vice is Reddit, which I really need to quit.

Reddit is a cesspool of mediocrity and groupthink. Hope that helps.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

#977

Post by phoghed »

Yizahi wrote: post #959
phoghed wrote: post #887

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is worse imo just because of how the site is structured and the power of mods.

Default Reddit mainpage is strictly what you subscribe to. And from a tech point of view, Reddit has old. CSS, it has tree style comments with sorting and collapsing, it has no dumb character limits, and on big screens it properly fills the screen with content instead of dumb emptiness or fluff or just infogarbage (do people remember that hashtags are literally just a useless character dumps, born out of the limitati…

In terms of echo chamber, which is what I was responding to, it’s absolutely worse.

You may has well have replied that, in fact, its color scheme is more red than Twitter.

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