Bluesky is completely mental. People crucified X for occasional swastika "art", while Blusky openly promotes communist symbolism that is illegal in good chunk in Europe. Insane.
"On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at 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."
Won't be reading any twitter post on HN.
Is there a convenient way to block them?
Hacker News is just trying to light a candle in the darkness.
Of a gasoline station.
Is there an official Bluesky or Mastodon? Especially after the Nitter cease-and-desist, I have run out of patience for Musk's propaganda machine.
I know there are HN bots pulling stories to Mastodon but I don't think there's an official instance.
IMO there's a lot more propaganda here.
Bluesky is completely mental. People crucified X for occasional swastika "art", while Blusky openly promotes communist symbolism that is illegal in good chunk in Europe. Insane.
Xcancel shut down after mostly being promoted on HN and now HN makes an official account there?
hmmMmmMmmMMMmm
"On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at 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."
Good decision, since X posts are now auto translated to users prefer language. And X is still in the top social media in lot of countries.
Not to be too Elon like terse but:
"Why"
(I read the post)
Presumably because it advances the goals of Hacker News and perhaps YCombinator.
Becoming active on Twitter in 2006: sunglasses
Becoming active on Twitter in 2016: popcorn
Becoming active on Xitter in 2026: red ballcap
It makes a statement. Is it a statement you want to make?
Are people here really surprised that the techno-capitalist aggregator people would make an account on Elon’s website?
timing is everything!
Haha. It's like creating a MySpace account in... 2026.
> Hello again, world!
Has that kinda vibe.
Disappointing to say the least.
Read the room, YC, jfc
Well done, I will follow ...
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Anyone got an Xcancel link? Oh wait...
Not a great look, YC.
As a casual Xcancel user, this is actually the first I'm hearing of this. Wow, what a bummer
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