I'm not sure why Threads makes your cut here, trading one walking negative externality of person in control for another is not really a sell to most folks.

An interesting new one for Canadians (that's built on AT and interops with bsky) is https://gandersocial.ca/. It uses our national postal service's identity validation, so it dramatically reduces foreign actors and bots, and without handing PII to shady private companies like Persona. They collect no PII either, they just get an "is_a_human" response back from Canada Post.

You can still do read-only things like see threads and follow users as an anonymous user. Just can't post or comment. Only thing I don't like is that it's app-only for now.

Wasn’t xcancel, sort of by definition, for people who have already left X?

This article has a good explanation of why "you, yes you" should leave:

https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit...

They all get to the point where anime contents start flooding in pinning the system at capacity 24/7, scaring the wrong set of people, and then they chicken out and start dying a long death. This situation itself is downstream event of Twitter doing the same, in a sense.

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