Fuck.

Any alternatives?

Leave. It sucks since so much info and live news is often stuck there but people need to realize ot is a dying platform, the less traction any of its content gets, the better.

I hope more people take this chance to leave X for good.

The people using this service are the ones who already left Twitter.

Or never had one, and are just checking one thing. Then twitter says you need an account to view. So you use these alternate viewing sites. I did that a few times.

Well, that also means you can’t verify if a post was actually made or not there. I stay the fuck away from twitter except through nitter if I’m checking a “source”. So now that’s gone I guess

Honestly, genuinely, and 100% seriously, if it is a twitter screenshot, it is probably better to simply disregard its veracity. Twitter screenshots are 80% dunking on random vermin, 30% bot posts, and 20% faked. (Percentages reflect the vent diagram of fuck that is twitter) I used to verify, until I realized that the people there are simply not worth knowing.

Well, the thing is like say you see someone share something outrageous that makes you ask “wait is this real? Did they really say that?” Being able to check veracity is important in the age of disinformation.

Also since I post a lot of comics I typically try to share the source. Now most artists have moved to other platforms, but their backlog might still be on that shithole. I don’t want to provide a link to that place, so being able to link to a proxy is preferred

That’s not an option because I’m not on X in the first place. I used xcancel to access information from government agencies and some brands since you cannot browse X without an account, and I deleted mine after Elon Musk bought it.

twitee.co still works as of now.

Talk to your local representatives about it.

In my area they seem to send answer alerts that link to Xitter. And you can’t see alert unless you have an account.

There’s no good reason why they shouldn’t post those details on their own site, but they won’t until people put pressure on them.

Is there actual evidence it’s dying? For a while it seemed like the momentum was there but now I don’t hear much about mastodon or even bluesky from normies.

Mastodon and Bluesky will probably get another boost with this, then it’ll go back to how it’s been.

There are far too many bots for human account deletions to really make a dent in Xitter’s numbers.

Unfortunately I seem to hear much more mentions of Threads than Mastodon.

Just what we need, more market share for Meta…

Sadly my state representative pretty much only posts on there and I feel like I can better tailor my complaints and insults towards him when he fucks up by reading his drivel

Could someone create a bridge account that reposts their tweets to mastodon?

If anything of consequence happens on Twitter, you’ll hear about it elsewhere.

100%

Plenty of Xitter screenshots even here.

Xcancel was most useful when someone else posted a link to Twitter. That doesn’t stop being useful when you personally don’t use the site.

Libdirect has a list of alternative frontends that it can pick from. I’ve been using it to redirect xitter links so I found that helps when one goes down.

Edit: I meant to say libredirect

What is that? Can you link it? Searching “libdirect” turned up nothing

I believe they’re referring to the browser extension, libredirect

Yeah, but the one on that list is what’s been taken down…

twitterwebviewer.com

EDIT: the above is gone, you can use https://carryfeed.com/ for now

Appears to work, but it’s riddled with pop up ads that cover the content and are constantly reloading and jumping around. I hope xcancel comes back.

Acquire:

1. taste

2. books

You better start believing in alternatives. You’re on one.

slow clap

Bit of a shitty comment mate.

Wasn’t meant that way. Meant it like, everyone slowly realizes how great the joke is, applause builds…

https://bird.makeup/ should allow you to follow twitter accounts from the fediverse. Obviously interactions don’t make it back to twitter, but could be useful nevertheless. See for example @franceskalbs@bird.makeup. Unfortunately twitter is full of trolls, so many instances block bird.makeup to avid spam from seeping through.

It’s not an alternative to xcancel as it doesn’t allow you to read feeds you don’t follow, but it’s good if you want to keep up to date with what users post.

Self host your own nitter instance while you can: github.com/zedeus/nitter

I stopped using Twitter many, many years ago. It was just full of shit and a place for people that can’t keep thoughts in their head, no matter how uninteresting and pointless they are to speak aloud.

I’ve been fine. Much better than those that still use it, as far as is clear to me. Just leave. It’ll only be an improvement.

To me it is Twitter and all of twitter’s content is plain trash no matter where you read it from.

Sometimes i look at my shit because it can say something about my health. Despite the content being trash, doesn’t mean there can be no value in being able to access it.

I did write “to me” it means that, I did qualify. Oh well.

I hope this means that Shitter is starting to be in some trouble.

Somebody in Xitter HQ is shitting themselves because Daddy Elon just made a demand that the business must actually be profitable this quarter.

it’s really sad that so man people lingered on this dogshit website after that fuckhead elon musk bought it

“But I won’t be able to market!!!” The Onion got more coverage after leaving, you have no excuse

Ya, people follows where the content is, also people are lazy, so if you still post on x your followers will not migrate and you will see worse numbers on the new platform, but if you fully stop posting on x your followers will follow you to the new platform.

Pretty much lmao

Lol “that one company that’s worth millions of dollars that you remember from your teen years did just fine after they left that website and bought another company that was worth millions with a name we all recognized since our early 20’s! If they can do it, why can’t you??” You also gloss over the fact that they relied on Facebook and Twitter to get the recognition they ever got in the first place.

Come on now. Surely you understand if you’re selling wooden bowls you carve yourself or a local lawn care company and need to have the largest presence for that Facebook and twitter are virtually the only way. Sure there’s radio and building your own website but all that costs money and time. If you don’t have that you are forced to use Facebook and Twitter.

Unless you like running a business that performs poorly compared to the competitors around you, that is. That is still an option!

I hate twitter and Facebook and reddit and all that shit too its a privacy nightmare but everyone acting like you can do just fine with a business without that without having astronomical cost increases and headaches along the way is lying to themselves and everyone else around them.

I want everyone to leave too but acting like a pompous ass about it and saying “you have no excuse not to succeed with the tools others around you succeeding are using!” Isn’t the way to do it.

I’ll gladly judge someone not willing to leave the nazi pedo site just because they might lose a few bot followers, sorry. Look at Wukko, the guy behind Helium Browser. All he does is whine that people don’t like AI and act condescending towards people who raise issues about the project. It’s really bizarre the way that guy acts.

Losing bot followers is not the same as losing money and your livelihood I hope you can understand the difference between the two.

Twitter is not worth it for your mental health. Looking at how they treat people who aren’t 100% flawless.

Unfortunately I think you’re right about Facebook. If you’re not on Facebook you’re putting yourself at a significant disadvantage in terms of reaching a broad audience. If you’re a small customer-facing (i.e. not B2B) business or grassroots organisation you need to be on Facebook.

But I just don’t think the same thing is true of Xitter. And hasn’t been since long before paedo guy bought it. Average people don’t use Twitter and never have. It’s used by a smaller group of journalists, techies, and the terminally online.

I deleted my account when Musk announced he was going to buy it and even then i barely visited the site or opened the app, then moved on to Reddit and now i’m here and if someone posts something short to read here then i’ll read it, otherwise it’s not important and not worth the effort.

Long text is not important? Or long text on Lemmy is not important? 🤔

If they copy/paste the whole thing that was on Shitter then i’ll read it but if they copied only a part then that’s all i’ll read.

Ah, okay. I thought you meant that long posts in general have no value, not that you were talking about copying stuff from Twitter! 😅

Yeah i’m not dealing with that shitshow.

If we’re bring really honest most posts regardless of length dont really have good value. Facebook, twitter, reddit/Lemmy… we’re addicted now but we’d be better off globally without any of them.

I hope you mean when he bought it, not when he announced it. He announces a lot of things all the time which never happen.

Nope i deleted it when he announced it because i didn’t really need it, otherwise i might have waited a bit and i’m glad i fucked off when i did.

I mean outside of everything else it was never my bag. Feels to cult of personality to follow people. I like it by subject like forums do. I mean it makes sense with things like youtube where its content driven.

Could anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?

It displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter

It will still generate traffic to Twitter in order to fetch the tweet. It’s an alternative frontend for privacy purposes, so Twitter doesn’t get your browser fingerprint, IP address, etc. It’s all proxied through xcancel/nitter.

And you don’t have to login.

However it generates only a fraction of the traffic that would otherwise reach twitter, and also makes it useless as it cannot be data harvested.

Ah, OK. That’s why they are pissed off.

Could Xcancel become a search engine with an “AI” that provides all the info in the destination pages? I.E. use the Google model?

It’s kinda crazy how little I care. Although I do respect them for having provided the service for those who wanted it.

There’s just nothing on Twitter that I want to read about. Mastodon is all I need for microblogs. I just wish more comic artists posted their content there instead of Twitter/Instagram.

yeah its kinda funny because its not like folks who used xcancel are going to use x. it just means less traffic overall for them if xcancel traffic goes away.

I am not worried about twitter, but I am worried about corporations coming after other platforms; and I especially don’t want youtube getting any ideas.

Me knowing I’m building the same thing for Spotify and it allows DRM free streaming

Fucking apartheid beneficiary again.