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It's really disheartening. All those names the OP has mentioned, but we can't see them as X.com has X'ed them under password.

We need to look at some other service that is open to share our own identities without the login hell.

Does anyone know if such service is available?

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I was side-wondering whether OP is an X employee with all that x.com linking and mentioning. (What's hax0r about X in the year 2007+17, laments childish-laconic-portion-of-me =)

In the audience space of meet.hn, defaulting to github/gitlab/sourcehut/etc profiles instead would have been just more apt =)

I prefer when personal websites are used but agree

I don’t know if an actual identity system is needed. I would think just have a location and an email is north to work out the details. I don’t like to prove who I am to most people on the internet. I do like to meet and talk but exactly who anybody is I prefer to take them at they com.

Any mastodon server, any WordPress/Tumblr, GitHub pages, HN profiles..?

I'm not sure Twitter/X is an identity as much as it is a "place where I looked for this person first" or "place which I know this person uses".

here you go https://xcancel.com/

Incredible. How does that work? I thought Nitter was completely neutered a while ago.

This is actually an instance of nitter.

https://xcancel.com/about

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances#public

Nitter worked by signing in with special "guest accounts" that I think were given to fresh downloads of the mobile apps.[0] Last year, X fully disabled that functionality, which left most Nitter instances broken. At that point, the developer publicly abandoned/ended the project.

The couple of instances floating around that still work are, to my knowledge, forks of the original Nitter that have been upgraded to work with a pool of manually created X accounts, which is a relatively expensive and fragile approach that most instances probably aren't up for taking.

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...

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