Okay so, in all sincerity - I know a number of organizations have basically depended on stuff like Nitter/XCancel as an excuse to continue posting important information on X. Now that people without accounts are really locked out I hope we can actually put serious pressure on organizations to post information publicly.
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@misty This sucks. 100% agree. I've been saying its time for orgs to at least have a mirror somewhere else god damn.
My redirects from nitter -> x, instagram -> imginn, reddit -> redlib.catsarch.com have been solid til now.
@misty Don't let us die here in Gaza; 😢we love life. Please help us—for the sake of our children.
@misty oh is nitter dead?
@AmyZenunim As a doornail, it appears. They got a cease and desist from X today. XCancel was sent the same.
Oh shit. This is a bummer.
@misty hopefully this convinces more artists to hedge on bluesky or something. idk. it sucks because there's a lot of good art on there but it doubly sucks knowing all of it is being fed into Grok.
@AmyZenunim @misty Bluesky isn't a viable long-term alternative because, in the long-term, it will be fundamentally not different from Twitter because it was literally founded by Twitter's co-creator, Jack Dorsey and will inevitably follow an all too similar path, regardless of its initial stated intent.
"Don't be evil", until after the IPO.
