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  • Is there something like a balancer that redirects me to an instance that is not down?
    by klntsky
  • I guess X never heard of the Streisand effect...
    by corvad
  • We could stop thinking of them as walled gardens we're trying to get into and start thinking of them as quarantines for the Eternal September population.
    by add-sub-mul-div
  • https://twitterviewer.net/
    by franczesko
  • Yeah, but most of these will fall. I used to use one or two of these to scrape my friends' posts because I stopped using Twitter and they'd inevitably all disappear in time. It's like chasing the latest TPB. In the end, I just logged in a headless browser and told an agent to fetch daily.
    by arjie
  • I might cut into my own flesh right now, but the funny thing about that XCancel shutdown is that while the website is down, the RSS feeds still work. Almost like they've just been required to shutdown the visible website and they complied with exactly that.
    by pronik
  • The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better, by a lot. I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about that I can use for twitter....but the experience just sucks. I don't know how any stands it, even if they don't mind needing an account.
    by MostlyStable
  • A non-technological way to give negative feedback to Twitter/X is to stop using it, even "just reading an occasional post".

    Continuing to read things on it, even through Nitter, is in the interests of Twitter/X and of the people who continue to support Twitter/X by posting there.

    Tell the people who use it no. The decent people won't hear them on Twitter/X, and the decent people will wonder what's wrong with them if they persist in supporting that thing.

    Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i can find a way to take it from them anyway."

    Grassroots collective social action can work, if it isn't constantly undermined by selfish and short-sighted taking.

    by neilv

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