alt Hacker NewsXCancel also down, at least for time being
Message on xcancel website:
"On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel."
https://xcancel.com/
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Pick literally any one of those, just seriously, if you're still on that platform, leave.
Yeah, it’s connected to Nitter.
I had a number of bookmarked X accounts I would check in on via xcancel. I’ll keep them for now but I assume they’re done for.
I have zero desire to ever crate an X account. Keep closing doors, Elon, and watch usage drop even more than it already has.
Regardless of the outcome, I’m very thankful for xcancel and all the excellent work they’ve done.
I wish them the best in the legal fight!
Especially rich coming from X Corp, with their xAI-Bot web scrapers.
It's insane that their sign-up process now requires a phone number to complete on the web, and even basic features like playing a video in a tweet recently stopped working on x.com without an account. (In the past, searching for tweets, looking at an account's entire timeline, etc., never required logging in at all.)
X is really a bad joke with their "Public Town Square".
Wait until Musk discovers that without these additional services, people will care even less about what happens there.
EST, huh? Where is this poster located that they are in an Eastern Standard Time zone?
What's the point of such a service? It sounds like performative nonsense.
Whenever Meta is mentioned on HN, there will be HN users asking why people are still on Facebook or Instagram when we all know Meta hired psychology PHDs to make their products addictive yadda yadda. Usually you will just see people tell each other that they have gotten off Facebook before it became uncool. You hardly see anyone accusing each other of virtue signaling or having any kind of political slant.
But Twitter or X comes up, someone will say they don't use it, and people will start calling out their supposed virtue signaling and making wild speculations about their politics in no time.
Why?
A real shame. Even if you put all the political arguments aside it sucks when a site requires you to log in before you can read content on it.
For me that’ll mean I just don’t read content on there any more. Which I realise X doesn’t care about, I’m not monetisable anyway. But a shame nonetheless.