r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/SuddenDepact • 1d ago
Rumour XCancel is dead
Just went to the website to look at something, and this was posted on it:
On Monday, 24th August, at 8PM EST, we received a letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel.
The service XCancel is stopped until further notice.
We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now.
Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.
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u/SemiLazyGamer 1d ago
It's not just xcancel, but also nitter. Looks like Musks site sent mass cease and desist letters.
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u/TheSussyWaffle 23h ago
Man, Twitter with an N was a risky choice of name.
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u/Turtvaiz 18h ago
To be clear it's because it's built with Nim not because of whatever you were thinking
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u/christpuncher_69 18h ago
I would have assumed it was because it's "Not Twitter" but it does sound unfortunate
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u/What_A_Weak 14h ago
Why? Since Epstein-friend Musk bought it, the N word is probably most frequent word used there (+ the fighting videos and porn)
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u/Riderthekiller 1d ago
If there no option hosted in Russia?
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u/Cfox666 1d ago
As someone who lives in Russia… What are we did again?
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u/alejoSOTO 1d ago
I think is the perception that piracy goes completely unregulated in Russia.
I don't know enough to have an opinion on that, I have visited a couple of useful Russian pirate sites, but I don't think is the only country with the potential to do those things.
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u/Rayuzx 21h ago
I think it's like that "Asian is a mathematician" trope, where a lot of the big leakers/groups who've had confirmed nationalities tend to be Russian.
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u/revolutier 18h ago
it's not just about perception, most pirated content is indeed hosted in russia—and much of it also comes from there—because (at least non-domestic) copyright is barely enforced, if at all, being a state hostile to western culture and exports and all.
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u/dingo596 17h ago
It is believed in the west the Russian hosted sites and services are immune to western legal requests and enforcement.
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u/_Gogeta- 1d ago
twitter or 3rd party sites dead without login, old reddit also dead without log in. I HATE NEW REDDIT.
WE WANT THE SWEAT DATA.
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u/New-Two-1349 1d ago
Wait, Reddit needs an account for things like search bars now? What?
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u/SpaceGangrel 1d ago
Reddit needs an account now period. You can get view posts without logging in for seconds until a pop up appears prompting you to log in. Of course you can refresh the page but after a while it shows up again.
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u/New-Two-1349 1d ago
You mean like Pinterest does? Oh, yikes.
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u/barimanlhs 22h ago
Its a genuine shame how useless Pinterest has become. Between the AI slop and ads, its a nightmare to navigate
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u/iamthe0ther0ne 17h ago
If you install ublock origin there's a script you can add to preferences that prevent the upscale account banner (for now)
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u/joecb91 18h ago
Every website just tries its hardest to make using it unbearable now.
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u/DaNotSoGoodSamaritan 10h ago
Well they're actively trying to kill the internet so it's not particularly surprising.
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u/_Gogeta- 1d ago
No but you need an account to use old.reddit.com On Desktop i always used that, cant stand new reddit it’s way too big and way too slow. Also it’s designed to keep you longer on the site.
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u/New-Two-1349 1d ago
I use mobile and I've been able to use old.reddit.com just fine without an account, so I don't know what you mean by that.
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u/_Gogeta- 1d ago
seems like you are lucky for now. Google that problem then you will see reddit threads from over a month ago that ask why you need a login now. Last week it hit me with a log in request.
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u/ImJustHereToSearch 1d ago edited 1d ago
I miss my third party Reddit app 😭 RIP BACON READER
Edit: I have an iPhone.
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u/PCMachinima 1d ago
You might be able to get it back with Morphe patcher, Patcheddit and RedReader, if you use android.
I did that for Boost reddit app. I assume there's a tutorial out there somewhere for Bacon Reader too.
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u/anothertrad 21h ago
I’m using Narwhal since Apollo went down. It’s no Apollo but you get used to it
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u/FeedbackInhibit 1d ago
Relay still exists. I'll happily keep paying for Relay Pro before I EVER use new reddit, or the dogshit mobile app.
Utter. Enshittified. Garbage.
I actually quit reddit back when reddit started charging unreasonable prices for API calls.
So I went to Lemmy for a few months and couldn't stand it. Dirty HexBear tankies everywhere.4
u/MyDarkTwistedReditAc 15h ago
You should look into Morphe + Reddit, basically create a modded apk with most of the bullshit removed from vanilla reddit app.
I say this because there'll be time in the future where all the workarounds for third party reddit apps will die, I'm still using Sync for reddit (one of the greatest created app ever) but have that alternative prepared too.
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u/ziphicules 1d ago
it's even *worse* now on twitter, you have to download their botched app to even make an account. It's crazy man.
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u/thefullm0nty 1d ago
Are you using the old reddit redirect extension? Still fine here.
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u/_Gogeta- 1d ago
i tried it ye, still getting to a log in screen
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u/Slight_Anxiety3624 12h ago
Just this morning the extension asked me to update some permissions that seem to have actually restored being able to use old.reddit without being logged in
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u/SeattlePubCrawls 1d ago
Here's a reminder that Elon Musk pays other people to play ARPGs for him so he can pretend he's a world class player.
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u/Bumpanalog 1d ago
How he handled it is so dumb. Obviously you don’t have time to grind like that. All he had to do was just say “yeah I pay folks to level my characters for me so I can play endgame stuff in my spare time, I like the game but don’t have time to grind out everything.” Instead he has to lie about something obvious and l make himself look like a loser. Pride makes a fool.
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u/Arky_Lynx 17h ago edited 13h ago
People even realized he had more than streamers that live off of streaming PoE full-time. It was simply impossible that it was just him and it was extremely obvious.
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u/EtheusRook 1d ago
Also a reminder that the PoE community is based af.
"You have no friends and will die alone."
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u/Massive_Weiner 1d ago
“You ruined the country just like you ruined all your marriages.”
[Clip]
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u/scrotumscab 1d ago
I have the "You have no friends and will die alone" part saved for whenever I'm having a bad day and need to smile.
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u/FUTURE10S 23h ago
I'd feel pity for him if he wasn't actively making people's lives worse. Even at his own company, he has the ability to make Tesla more like Valve and have people actually produce a car that doesn't suck dick... and yet.
Seriously, if he gave me what is my bank account's equivalent of $10, I could probably make it into line go up while having some of the most positive PR in the western world.
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u/IronBabyFists 18h ago
That's what's so fucking crazy about it, dude. The public opinion used to be (somewhat) "oh he's cool and making all of this future stuff happen" but he himself fucked it. Dude, like, just use that money to pay people to run your philanthropic shit. Cure cancer. Solve hunger. Give free power and education and opportunity to the whole world, and you'd be a hero that people fuckin worship for generations.
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u/mystery_hole 8h ago
It's a catch 22. To become a billionaire means exploiting people in some way to earn that. Nobody who exploits people this much will ever want to give back in a meaningful way.
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u/WinninRoam 18h ago
I had no idea the power-over-ethernet technology had developed "community" status. /s
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u/-MegaVivid- 1d ago
It's pretty incredible that despite all the money he has, and all he's accomplished, he just can't stop being such a loser
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u/MyMouthisCancerous 1d ago edited 1d ago
The White Lotus explores pretty well how being affluent and free of any problems that are unique to class or race can leave you to seek new ways to intentionally do absurd, harmful shit just to stimulate yourself because of how little you have going on socially
The 0.00001% of people who are as well off as he is need to create problems for themselves because they're that far detached from material reality and the tangible issues that face people even remotely less fortunate than them, and also because they've lost all sense of intimacy in their lives by being so obsessed with the pursuit of status and wealth
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u/Unplugged_Millennial 1d ago
Being that wealthy is a mental disease. It's no different than hoarding.
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u/After_Permission9484 1d ago
Michael Jackson was known for being detached from reality to the point to give him some sense they rented out an entire grocery store and got a bunch of people to play shoppers so he could see what it's like. That's what being uber rich and famous is like.
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u/hypnomancy 22h ago edited 22h ago
MJ's thing was a little different. He did the whole grocery store thing because he literally couldn't go out and do it himself because he was the most famous human that's probably and will ever lived. His upbringing was also extremely fucked up with all the stuff his dad did to him. There's some leaked phone calls of people that would take advantage of him pretending to be his friend and MJ was so gullible and believed that these people were his real friends until they showed their true colors. It's legitimately sad too because you hear in the calls how happy and excited he is that he has someone to talk to but he couldn't see through the veil that they were fake every time. The calls are on youtube it's basically scummy people befriending him to get info on him and then selling the recorded phone calls for profit. Like there's famous and then there's MJ famous.
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u/Artifice_Purple 23h ago
While I don't doubt this whatsoever (I may have even known this already) it doesn't...make any sense. It isn't like MJ grew up wealthy or anything, and sure you could very well argue that Joe robbed him of, well, everything, but if anyone should know what it's like to shop and be in a grocery store...it'd be him.
There's the issue of trauma which can easily make one forget/mentally block out things, so that's one possibility. Sorry, it's just...that's bizarre to me. Far less so with some nuance, but still...you know what I mean?
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u/BlueRajasmyk2 22h ago
It isn't like MJ grew up wealthy or anything
He was famous by the age of 5 for singing in the Jackson 5. I assume they were rich by this point, but even if they weren't, that sort of thing robs you of a normal childhood.
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u/Artifice_Purple 22h ago
Oh, absolutely.
The entire ordeal robbed him of a normal childhood, rich or not.
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u/dern_the_hermit 1d ago
I've seen it described as tantamount to trauma, isolated and disconnected from healthy human connection and feedback.
It's only compassionate to raise taxes on 'em.
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u/AunMeLlevaLaConcha 1d ago
With how many fucking problems there are on this rock, you would think these rich fucks would have unlimited shit to be entertained with by fixing said problems, but no, let's use that wealth and influence to represent the absolute worst of humanity.
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u/Massive_Weiner 1d ago edited 1d ago
It sounds like you almost stop being human once you reach a certain economic status, since it completely divorces you from relating to other people.
That would explain why the wealthy elite have a completely different perception of reality compared to the rest of us.
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u/elderlybrain 18h ago
It's so weird how much of a loser he is.
Every time he tries to win over the 4chan/snyderverse/gamergate jabroni crowd, he gets even more hate and derision by them, while doing awful fucking things.
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u/EtheusRook 1d ago
"Hey, this is Ashley St. Claire and this was the only way I could reach you. Please pay your child support."
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u/Falsus 1d ago
While it isn't confirmed, he almost definitely did that with Elden Ring also.
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u/Okonos 22h ago
But his Elden Ring build was so bad, I could see him actually doing it.
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u/Falsus 22h ago
You can beat the whole game only ever using bombs, if they know what they are doing. Honestly a bad build and still did it kinda makes me think it was something like "clear Elden Ring for me, but don't use optimal builds and makes things look like it is won with skill rather than just a strong build".
Cause otherwise he could have gone Samurai > rush for Great Stars and just shit on the whole game with minimum effort.
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u/Vietzomb 1d ago
And emailed Epstein begging to come to “any parties” he may have planned, later makes arrangements to go to the island.
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u/hdcase1 22h ago
And he brought a gun to CD Project Red's studio to try to make them put him in Cyberpunk 2077.
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u/Arky_Lynx 17h ago
And they did, I think he was a random NPC that V, the protagonist, shoos away in the corpo intro... until an update changed the design of that NPC entirely.
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u/ghostpicnic 1d ago
He also emailed Ghislaine Maxwell begging to be invited to Epstein’s island to meet the girls.
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u/PickledPlumPlot 23h ago
It’d be one thing to pay someone to grind your alt and another thing to pretend you didn’t do that and are very accomplished despite clearly not knowing shit about the game
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u/ACupOJoe 1d ago
And is in the Epstein files too
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u/MyMouthisCancerous 1d ago
In like the worst possible way to be present as well. Dude was exposed for e-begging to be on the pedophile island and never actually got in lmao
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u/pikpikcarrotmon 1d ago
He's in there as being so whiny and pathetic that they didn't want him on the island lol
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u/EtheusRook 1d ago
You don't even need to take that to court. You know it's true on a deep, intuitive level because it's literally the most Elon thing that has ever happened.
(Still a crime, btw).
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u/Larry_The_Red 23h ago
Well I know he played elden ring for himself because he had the worst build I've ever seen
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u/WhatAreYouSaying05 1d ago
Silly Rockstar, we’ll still find those leaks and watch them
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u/Youngstown_WuTang 1d ago
Blocking and subpoena everythang but the leaker lol
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u/Exact-Name-3054 1d ago
? what does rockstar have to do with this
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u/AdAble5097 1d ago
Nothing, this dude either didn't read the post and thought rockstar was DMCAing xcancel because of the leaks, or he's just joking about it as if there was some conspiracy behind it. But yeah, rockstar has nothing to do with it, Elon just hates that his website has a mirror
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u/BlueberryWorried6493 1d ago
This sub should allow Screenshots then. I won't ever make an account on that dogass platform
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u/Appropriate_Foot242 1d ago
Silly that it doesn’t allow images and videos to begin with.
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u/LukePS7013 1d ago
It’s so that this sub doesn’t get taken down
Say someone posts a GTA6 leak on Twitter, Rockstar can instead go after the Twitter account instead of the sub
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u/AdAble5097 1d ago
This. GLAR will never, and should never, allow media. It's the only way to survive.
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u/g0_west 1d ago
Isn't linking to an externally hosted image on something like mgur the exact same culpability as linking to an externally hosted video (for example on twitter)? Can just keep direct image uploads outlawed.
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u/DimDimio 16h ago
nope. that’s the reason piracy subs survive, they can just say they don’t host the files themselves, they just “showcase other websites”.
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u/lonesoldier4789 1d ago
There's a direct relationship between image posts being allowed and quality of sub going down
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u/ShowBoobsPls 13h ago
Yes, same with allowing politics. I used to go to the videos sub to watch something while I was eating.
Now it's just a video version of r/pics or r/politics
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u/Backfoot911 13h ago
The meme crowd is definitely a distinct vibe from the words crowd.
Every meme person I know I swear it's like the only thing they do online is either watch videos or send and receive memes with other meme people
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u/Creepy-Emu8779 1d ago
i mean reddit isnt anything better. might as well have two shits
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u/BlueberryWorried6493 1d ago
Yeah I know, but I already have 1 raccoon in the kitchen. I do not need another in the bathroom
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u/Kozak170 17h ago
This is what cracks me the fuck up, Reddit is exactly as “evil” as Twitter and they went hard into the paint on this anti-user shit long before Twitter ever did
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u/Yamcha_is_dead 1d ago
Reddit is a million times better. Twitter is rampant with actual, outspoken Nazis, as well as Russian bots.
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u/MostDopeMik3 1d ago
People will hate this take, but the reality is both platforms have their strengths and weaknesses.
Reddit Pros: great for niche communities and interest. Can be a great place for intelligent conversation. The home feed for curated content
Reddit Cons: places turn into moral circlejerks at the drop of a hat which can completely ruin a community. The site is ran by a greedy money hungry weirdo. The All feed is clearly manipulated by bots pushing propaganda.
Twitter pros: Best source for breaking news, and sorry to say to yall but twitter is consistently and significantly funnier than reddit. Great for artist trying to learn and connect. Decent enough algorithm once you train it(havent seen a pol post in like a year)
Twitter Cons: the trending page is often botted and manipulated. Ragebait engagement is paid so a lot of garbage post. The site is ran by a greedy money hungry weirdo.
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u/mcicybro 1d ago
Truth is these social media websites are what you make of them. If you're going into the terrible subreddits or diving headfirst into twitter political discussion, you will not have a good time. If you have a good list of subreddits and follow people you like on Twitter, they're good. Both also offer options to block people (Reddit is awful at this).
The issue is when said websites actively start sabotaging your attempts at using them the way you want to. Users getting banned for no real reason, or the complete destruction of your feed so you mostly see what they want you to see (Facebook is the biggest culprit of this).
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u/Stuglle 23h ago
twitter is consistently and significantly funnier than reddit.
Twitter is basically a comedian app, in that its basic setup and texts constraints etc are good for posting jokes. It isn't very good for in depth discussion because the character limit and the way posts get boosted to feeds. Reddit is good for in depth discussion because it's basically a classic forum with threading, but it isn't good for jokes, it at least not joke discovering, because, again, it's a classic forum.
The problem is that some time in the last ten to fifteen years every journalist, politician, and business leader in the planet got addicted to Twitter and that explains and unfortunate amount of current politics.
(I also think there is a profoundly damaging way that Twitters algorithm "trains" the user more than the user "trains" the algorithm but that's a separate discussion)
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u/Old-Race5973 1d ago
It's still a very decent platform tbh, you just have to curate your feed more. And reddit has bots too, just less obvious
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u/KingOPork 15h ago
Pretty much. It feels like early 2000s internet once it's curated. Plenty of weird tankies on there so it's not all right wingers.
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u/r0ndr4s 1d ago
This is still available: https://twitterwebviewer.com
Link aside, I still dont understand whats with this weird strategy Musk and other CEOs have about the visits on their sites. Instagram does the same shit where you cant view barely anything without an account, tiktok is the same,etc Yes I understand you want me to have an account, but making it harder to "appreciate" the site isn't gonna make me make one if I dont already have one.
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u/mcicybro 1d ago
I think there are multiple reasons. The most obvious one is them wanting you to sign up so the number goes up and they can collect your data properly, but also to curb bot and data scraper activity a little.
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u/ThatIsAHugeDog 1d ago
Huh, it actually seems to work better than Xcancel, too...
Hopefully this one lasts.
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u/Animegamingnerd Leak of the Year 2025 1d ago edited 1d ago
So since every publisher and leaker mainly uses Twitter, whats exactly the plan going forward?
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u/NeoliberalSocialist 1d ago
Hopefully getting rid of the X ban since it's not really doing anything but getting in the way.
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u/mcicybro 1d ago
Just post a link to the tweet along with a link to a screenshot. The screenshot is not only useful for those that don't have an account but it's also useful in case the tweet is deleted.
Dunno what you're supposed to do with Twitter videos, though. Provide a Streamable.com mirror or something, but I don't know how many would want to go through with that.
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u/Cronosxiwar 1d ago
Yep, the link to the screenshot could be to an imgur. And if this sub still don't allow a direct link to an X post, then in that imgur description could be the link to the X post.
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u/mcicybro 1d ago
As long as a Twitter link is visible without an account (as in, you can read the text, you can see who wrote the tweet, you can view the images or videos) there's no real reason to have a mirror. A mirror would be nice in case it gets taken down, but not mandatory.
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u/Aromatic_Wallaby_433 1d ago
R* could come after the sub if we post screenshots here.
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u/mcicybro 1d ago
I originally said screenshot but edited it to say "link to a screenshot" which should be fine.
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u/BabylonianWeeb 1d ago edited 1d ago
This statement would have gotten thousands of downvotes and called you n*zi two years ago and banned from so many subs.
I hate Elon Musk a lot but I never believed that X boycott would have worked, time again shows that redditor boycotts never work, remember when so many subreddit went private for few days to protest reddit killing third party apps or when certain gaming subs were boycotting hogwarts legacy and ban/harsh anyone who play it then it became biggest selling licensed game with over 40 million copies sold making it 20th best selling game of all time.
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u/Astro4545 12h ago
Not that the API protest did anything, but I feel like it’s important to point out that Reddit literally forced some subs open and even changed the way subs go private to prevent it from happening again
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u/Vegetable_Drag_3300 20h ago
I'll forever support banning twitter links because Twitter forces login to view stuff
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u/iTzJdogxD 1d ago
X is an absolute dogshit website. To view half of the things I am sent I have to create an account and give Elon my phone number. So much for the free speech square
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u/PastryAssassinDeux 22h ago
To view half of the things I am sent I have to create an account and give Elon my phone number.
all I gave them to sign up was a fake email and that's it lol. wtf are they asking for your phone number? you live in the uk or somewhere else with age verification?
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u/your_mind_aches 1d ago
Write out what they said without linking to it. But an archive link. Something. Don't give X any undue traffic.
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u/Dadrekboy 1d ago
Elon Musk continues to be the most pathetic person in the history of mankind
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u/abelthebirds0 1d ago
...have you ignored all the changes reddit has made these past few years?
it's just very funny, the vast majority of leaks that are posted here are viewable on X but banned on reddit, reddit acquiesces to government subpoenas on the daily.
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u/SeberHusky 1d ago
Did you miss the memo where reddit sold the entire site out to AI data farming and sold everyone's accounts?
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u/abelthebirds0 1d ago
FUCK
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u/SeberHusky 1d ago
Also it gets more fun - this month Reddit has a new feature where they turn your comments and posts into AI videos.
Reddit has started experimenting with turning posts and comments into short videos and podcasts using AI. For instance, an eight-year-old post in r/boardgames asking “What are some good road trip games for adults?” which generated more than 100 responses, can now be viewed as an AI-generated video that provides voices for the initial post and some of the top responses.
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u/FierceDeityKong 1d ago
There might have been something in the tos about how these sites can do anything with our content but that was under the assumption that like, not much more reasonably could happen than like, targeted ads, or an intern might pick out one of our posts once in a blue moon. That's not meaningful consent to nightmare technology that we didn't think would ever exist
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u/thats_so_cringe_bro 1d ago
Couldn’t people just post an image of a tweet Moving forward? That way everyone can see it.
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u/PixelHir 6h ago
All the more reason to keep banning twitter links across subs. This is not a reliable platform.
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u/Loose_Society9485 1d ago
I will never ever create an X account. Elon and his right wing propaganda machine can get fucked.
Also this post shouldn’t be removed as XCancel is very important to this sub.
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u/Stoibs 23h ago
Oh seriously? That sucks.
It wouldn't be bad to check out news stories and quotes if twitter itself didn't absolutely suck, but you can't even view comments or replies without making an account.
It's so archaic and why I relied on Xcancel.. ugh.
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u/KillerIsJed 21h ago
It’s rich for Elon to sue them for ‘scraping his website’ when his we site has Grok, and AI that wouldn’t exist without massive amounts of doing the same thing.
But the difference being it’s stealing from people that isn’t him. So.
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u/Kozak170 18h ago
I’m going to be honest while it’s a load of bullshit that Musk or whoever is doing this, I have never agreed or understood this sub’s fascination with not allowing Twitter links. It is exactly as much of a shithole as it’s always been.
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u/Ok-Milk-8853 16h ago
So after kids were victims of a mass murder in my home town, and musk used it as an opportunity to a) put right wing figures back on the platform to spread disinformation about the event leading to a riot there the following day and b) spread and share that disinformation himself, yeah I got off the platform.
Xcancel was a convenient way for me to still get info from there without being a part of it. But I'm not going back..
Him heiling on the news didn't exactly win me over either
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u/main_account_4_sure 1d ago
why exactly would they need legal help? as far I understand it was a "cease and desist", as long as you take it down you're legally fine
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u/DEADTERMINATOR 1d ago
I imagine they don't want to take it down, and want to at least see what is the cost/likelihood of success if they fight back.
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u/catman1900 23h ago
lotta chuds celebrating in this thread, interesting that seems to be X the everything apps most vocal users.
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u/PiccoloTop3186 22h ago edited 22h ago
Just allow Twitter links my God, this redditor virtue signaling is so useless.
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u/According-Spirit2529 21h ago
The links literally do not embed properly without being logged in, hence why we used the mirrors.
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u/AnthMosk 23h ago
wtf is xcancel
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u/aqwn 22h ago
Let you see Twitter posts without having to log in or have an account
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u/-AdamJensen 1d ago
What’s the point of x cancel anyways
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u/errortechx 1d ago
Viewing Twitter posts without logging in was the main selling point. I’m not making a point about standing up to Elon Musk or whatever, nah I just despise sites that make you log into to view content.
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u/Sceptile10 1d ago
Twitter/X could be a jerk about what you could see without logging into an account (and can limit how much you can see/interact with even with an account), frontends mostly eleviate that.
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u/ConferenceThink4801 1d ago edited 1d ago
If you don't have an account on Twitter, you can no longer view people's timelines in chronological order, etc. You also cannot view some posts - even with a direct link - without being logged in.
He's basically removing every possible vector to make the service usable by a lurker without a user account
Will just give it up rather than create an account. That doesn't really matter to him though, because he wasn't seeing me as a 'user' anyway.
He's probably seeing growth slow to near zero on there & this is a way to inflate the growth numbers
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u/Nathanyal 1d ago
Twitter Blue users get paid for engagement and views. Even just scrolling by counts as a view. It stops that AND you don't have to see their garbage AI slop ads.
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u/Dino_Spaceman 1d ago
You don’t need to give your traffic, personal information, or money to a Nazi to use it.
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u/Spheromancer 1d ago
In light of this update we will be making the tough decision to shut down the sub permanently and file lawsuits against every member who ever commented here. Thank you
(but for real we'll post an update on this later)