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Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a pic of the tweet or similar. No direct links to the tweet.
No international politcs
Be excellent to each other.
Provide an archived link to the tweet (or similar) being shown if it's a major celebrity, figure or any politician. See stickied post https://web.archive.org/save is an option. Archive.is is no longer recommended because they remove/alter content.
If a tweet (or similar) makes a statement of fact, either mark it as "satire" in the body or provide the original source link backing up the statement (see rule 6)

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Meta: XCancel has been taken down for the time being with a cease and desist letter (xcancel.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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You are still required to provide a source for famous people and politicians. Here are the options that I know of that are left.

archive.is - has been known to modify some things so it's not the best
https://web.archive.org/save
firesky.tv for bluesky

Please, if you know of any others, provide them in the comments. The next couple of months are going to be hell if we don't do this.

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[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I should preface this by saying i never used xcancel and assumed it was one of those sites that let you browse twitter without communicating directly with their servers. Sorry for wasting your time if that's entirely off base.

Instead of a single website, build an application where users can scrape and share posts/profiles/feeds with each other. You can minimize load on a given user by distributing requests to all users who have the content and are willing to share. That way, it's harder for them to break whatever you're reading twitter for since they have to go after more people who may not even be in a jurisdiction their lawyers can influence. Like torrenting, but for social media instead of ... linux distributions.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

XCancel is actually one instance of many that was running the Nitter software, so it was pretty close to what you were describing. People could run it themself, or pick the specific server that they wanted (ex. One closer to them).

Unfortunately, the software project itself got shut down: https://nitter.net/

I imagine we'll see forks on other code repositories soon enough.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not techy, that would be awesome though. We just use xcancel to veiw someone's video and/or profile if it's featured here. We sometimes get fabricated tweets posted by famous people or politicians. It's not usually the poster's fault, since it could be a repost from somewhere else.