Could anyone explain what this xcancel is/does for someone who never used twitter?
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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It displays tweets without generating traffic to Twitter
It will still generate traffic to Twitter in order to fetch the tweet. It's an alternative frontend for privacy purposes, so Twitter doesn't get your browser fingerprint, IP address, etc. It's all proxied through xcancel/nitter.
And you don't have to login to view stuff.
it's really sad that so man people lingered on this dogshit website after that fuckhead elon musk bought it
"But I won't be able to market!!!" The Onion got more coverage after leaving, you have no excuse
Ya, people follows where the content is, also people are lazy, so if you still post on x your followers will not migrate and you will see worse numbers on the new platform, but if you fully stop posting on x your followers will follow you to the new platform (you will not hit old numbers but those are inactive followers anyways).
I deleted my account when Musk announced he was going to buy it and even then i barely visited the site or opened the app, then moved on to Reddit and now i'm here and if someone posts something short to read here then i'll read it, otherwise it's not important and not worth the effort.
Long text is not important? Or long text on Lemmy is not important? 🤔
To me it is Twitter and all of twitter’s content is plain trash no matter where you read it from.
I hope this means that Shitter is starting to be in some trouble.
Somebody in Xitter HQ is shitting themselves because Daddy Elon just made a demand that the business must actually be profitable this quarter.
Fuck.
Any alternatives?
You better start believing in alternatives. You're on one.
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Leave. It sucks since so much info and live news is often stuck there but people need to realize ot is a dying platform, the less traction any of its content gets, the better.
If anything of consequence happens on Twitter, you'll hear about it elsewhere.
100%
Plenty of Xitter screenshots even here.
That's not an option because I'm not on X in the first place. I used xcancel to access information from government agencies and some brands since you cannot browse X without an account, and I deleted mine after Elon Musk bought it.
Is there actual evidence it's dying? For a while it seemed like the momentum was there but now I don't hear much about mastodon or even bluesky from normies.
Unfortunately I seem to hear much more mentions of Threads than Mastodon.
Mastodon and Bluesky will probably get another boost with this, then it'll go back to how it's been.
There are far too many bots for human account deletions to really make a dent in Xitter's numbers.
Well, that also means you can’t verify if a post was actually made or not there. I stay the fuck away from twitter except through nitter if I’m checking a “source”. So now that’s gone I guess
Honestly, genuinely, and 100% seriously, if it is a twitter screenshot, it is probably better to simply disregard its veracity. Twitter screenshots are 80% dunking on random vermin, 30% bot posts, and 20% faked. (Percentages reflect the vent diagram of fuck that is twitter) I used to verify, until I realized that the people there are simply not worth knowing.
Well, the thing is like say you see someone share something outrageous that makes you ask “wait is this real? Did they really say that?” Being able to check veracity is important in the age of disinformation.
Also since I post a lot of comics I typically try to share the source. Now most artists have moved to other platforms, but their backlog might still be on that shithole. I don’t want to provide a link to that place, so being able to link to a proxy is preferred
I hope more people take this chance to leave X for good.
The people using this service are the ones who already left Twitter.
Or never had one, and are just checking one thing. Then twitter says you need an account to view. So you use these alternate viewing sites. I did that a few times.
Sadly my state representative pretty much only posts on there and I feel like I can better tailor my complaints and insults towards him when he fucks up by reading his drivel
Could someone create a bridge account that reposts their tweets to mastodon?
Appears to work, but it’s riddled with pop up ads that cover the content and are constantly reloading and jumping around. I hope xcancel comes back.
Libdirect has a list of alternative frontends that it can pick from. I've been using it to redirect xitter links so I found that helps when one goes down.
What is that? Can you link it? Searching “libdirect” turned up nothing
I stopped using Twitter many, many years ago. It was just full of shit and a place for people that can't keep thoughts in their head, no matter how uninteresting and pointless they are to speak aloud.
I've been fine. Much better than those that still use it, as far as is clear to me. Just leave. It'll only be an improvement.