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  • A long time ago twitter had built in rss feeds. No need to scrape.
    by bilsbie
  • If XCancel is gone then I'm cancelling X. I don't need to read what people have to say on that website.
    by galoisscobi
  • Main discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

    And I still can't go over how this title looks like draft version with placeholder, published a bit too fast. How could anyone thing a single letter is good choice for an company/service name?

    by Good4boothee
  • Possible alternative? https://twitterwebviewer.com/
    by giamma
  • Scraping is legal. It's amazing how much these companies benefit from scraping but don't want others to do it.
    by 2OEH8eoCRo0
  • Not that it matters, but my use case for Nitter and XCancel was to provide a link to accompany a screen shot when discussing a tweet on Mastodon. Now I'lll just use a screen shot, there is zero chance I will send them direct traffic of any kind.
    by a4isms
  • Seeing all companies are hellbent to have all users logged in with accounts, it means they definitely integrated these accounts to some centralized database in the US or plantir aggregator to accurately track any, or basically ban them and remove them from any social media interaction. I have to warn that this gatekeeping is coming to non social media platforms as well, including your own blog, since you can’t control the domain names.

    It’s also hilarious how hypocritical these tech companies, meta steal and sell users data and sue a company for scraping, xitter send C&D letters, AI companies are building models from stolen books and sometimes even physically destroying them, then lecture others when their models get distilled, basically: rules for thee and not for me.

    by tamimio
  • It's both funny and sad that despite several malicious actions like this, despite wasting a ton of Twitter's social capital and despite years of broken promises (e.g., dealing with bots, bringing back free speech, ending algo/report manipulation), none of the writers and artists whose work I enjoy have even attempted to move away. I mostly just read there, but presumably posters feel bound to their social network. Maybe the site really was worth $44B.
    by zetanor

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