XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
40 pointsby mobilio3 hours ago3 comments
  • expedited123an hour ago
    Twitter has gone from relatively open to instagram / facebook level of closedness where I can't even share a video with my friends because it asks them to log in. I had to rely on nitter and xcancel for that... Now that no longer works either

    I have one niche that I use twitter for. If it wasn't for that - would have deleted my account long time ago. Things like this push me towards that direction, though.

    • spacechild19 minutes ago
      Just go ahead and quit! I had a niche use case for FB, but I decided to quit nevertheless because I didn't want to support the platform anymore. Today I don't miss it a single bit. (I never had a Twitter account in the first place.)
    • Razengan36 minutes ago
      Lets put AI to the test and make it walk the talk by making a viable alternative to Facebook/Twitter etc :)
      • phoghed28 minutes ago
        It’s a trivial project, it’s babbys first crud app. Getting everyone to use it is the hard part. There are already great alternatives that show this.

        Then scaling and paying for it is the hard part.

      • llm_nerd29 minutes ago
        There are many already. The code is not why people use those sites. In the case of Meta specifically, it's basically in spite of the user-hostile, garbage code.

        The network effect / entrenchment means that any replacement has to be massively better in every dimension to have a chance. Otherwise people just stick to what they know, and then other people stick to it because the other people do. And so on.

        I personally think Musk is a garbage-tier human who represents everything wrong with culture wars, and his brain is long blasted into a mush of worthless racist noise and stupidity by drug abuse, so I deleted my X account. Loads of others are too cowardly/selfish to do so.

        • jamesnorden11 minutes ago
          I think people try alternatives, turns out to be a ghost town, then they just go back.
      • mannycalavera4233 minutes ago
        this one :thumb-up
  • lousken15 minutes ago
    who cares about c&d? just host it outside of us
    • iamnothere6 minutes ago
      An anonymous group of devs should host the source on Radicle (over Tor) and the app itself on an onion site. Bonus, it may discourage some scrapers who can’t be bothered with setting up a Tor gateway.
  • dsdsavafdvan hour ago
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