I think it's important to preserve the original source for verifiability.
Perhaps require the main link to be to a mirror or screenshot, but allow the original link in the body of the post.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Yes and ban Meta too.
Yes. Ban it. No more traffic to big social media. If something is newsworthy there will be a blog post about it.
Is there a technicality for xcancel.com?
There should be a bot that converts the links like there is for youtube.
If you dont like X posts, you can not open X links. But dont make others unable to view it if they want
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So easy to just screenshot or something there is no reason to link there.
Sources are important, along with screenshots. Images can be manufactured or manipulated. Posts can be edited.
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I'd be more than happy to see all links pointing to xitter banned. FB/Meta would be nice too, but I think it's more important to sending a clear signal on neo-nazi salutes being a red line.
There's always xcancel. Does that not solve most people's concern?
It’s compatible with banning original links, and can break later
Block them. If they have something interesting or important to say, just quote it. Don't send them even more traffic and attention.
A quote is not a source. The news often misquotes people or takes words out of context.
A tweet should be screenshotted with the original link along with an alternate to xcancel.com.
If the tweet itself has a link or mentions something elsewhere, a link to that source should also be provided.
Sounds like a lot but anything less is misinformation, as far as I'm concerned. So much news and memes have been spread where the subject is taken out of context. Hours or days or years will go by before people come to discover the true meaning of something and by then the impression has already been made.
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Agreed. At least send the link shared to Twitter then, if there's any. A screenshot is better than nothing.
Difficult question to answer.
- things happen on Twitter / Threads / Gab/ etc that are important/worth hearing about , or at least interesting, but
- I do not wish to send any traffic to these sites
- and definitely do not wish them making any money from my traffic
In the end I think we should not forbid or block, but be much more careful what we share from those sites. I also think it’s important - very important - to make any competing social media much more interesting to people wanting to be involved and kept up to date. How, I don’t know either but we shouldn’t be too strict on eg Bluesky, rather cooperate or something.