XCancel service is suspended until further notice

gaganyaan

XCancel service is suspended. Unfortunately, due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings, we are required to suspend this service again until further notice. We can't share more details. You can find the content you were looking for on the original website: Continue to X Thank you for your understanding. And the trust you have put into the XCancel project.

cube00

The fact that so many large companies are still on X is so wrong.

darkwi11ow

Another "victory" for the freedom of information.

lapkaaaa

Why would anyone use any xitter service voluntarily at this point

pogue

Any details about what's going on? Is Nitter/their Github still up?

simondotau

If you don’t like X, I don’t understand why anyone would use a service like XCancel, which effectively helps maintain the cultural relevance of X. On a practical level, I’m also wondering what consistent legal standard people want when it comes to things like terms of service and individuals' copyright. It's unworkable to maintain one rule for the awesome people we might like and and another rule for the horrible despots we might not like.

aucisson_masque

What was the Chinese alternative ? At this point I’m just going to use that instead, lawyers won’t be able to take that down.

krembo

Not a popular question here, but what's the difference between xcancel or archive.org, and torrents and other pirate services alike? (except twitter is user content, yet per their tos xcancel is still piracy)

throwa356262

Proposal: Set up a mastodon account that mirrors your (or someone elses) X account. This way people who want can continue using X, and other people can read & refer to their posts without needing to log into X.

mitxela

There are now about 10 different people running them, and you can also run your own. https://status.d420.de/ The browser extension "Libredirect" will transparently redirect you to a working one or one of your choice.

solarkraft

So X is down again. Oh well.

chinathrow

Has anyone ever succeeded going up against Elon legally?

okeuro49

I wish X would allow browsing threads, which is the only reason I use xcancel. I wouldn't even mind seeing advertisements. I just don't want to have an X account.

ArtTimeInvestor

When I read this, the Arweave project [1] comes to mind. Isn't this the exact use case it was built for, preservation of news data in a way that it cannot be tampered with and so that it is kept accessible for everyone forever? [1] https://arweave.org/

ocd

I don't see how any government or business (especially the former) can justify using X at this point when it doesn't serve the public interest or the interest of customers who deserve at least some choice. It's as unreasonable for them as using Instagram or a dating app for something intended for broad reach and accessibility. I don't particularly like Bluesky, but it's publicly readable and has RSS. Any real solution would be protocol or standard instead of yet another closed service, though. For now, I see Nitter and XCancel as a temporary fix until people abandon it for whatever practical, economic, or political reason(s) they may have.

dpmartinez

Are there other instances available? X can't ban them all. I wish legal issues wouldn’t exist for this project and X would stop attacking projects that provide information for free. Privacy is important more than ever as many of us don't want to login into X.

esarbe

https://status.d420.de/

goda90

> You can find the content you were looking for on the original website *if you log in to an account A big reason many people use Nitter instances is that X has become very locked down for unauthenticated users.

yoz-y

Web version of Twitter has become unusable now. So much so that I wonder why they still keep it.

jmclnx

This to me is a big issue. You have politicians, government entities and other public institutions posting to twitter, but to access we need to log in. There needs to be a free, non-ad, non-login environment people can use to access this information posted by public entities. This comment also applies to facebook too, which I think is even worse than twitter.