And I'm going to keep dead naming X as Twitter until Musk stops dead naming his daughter. I never used the site in the first place, but that's besides the point.
And I’m going to keep dead naming X as Twitter until Musk stops dead naming his daughter.
I'll dead name Twitter long after Musk stops dead naming his daughter, or he himself is dead. X is a stupid fucking name.
We both know Musk is never going to stop dead naming his daughter, so same difference.
I joined when it was the only way to win a pair of tickets to The Colbert show's last taping. I didn't win, I've never opened the site again. My username is like "adifficultpoo" lol
imo musk is a deadname now after he came out as a nazi. Now its just the nazi or space nazi if there are multiple nazi's in the subject being discussed
Yeah i'il keep using mastodon and bluesky, also, they already have investors so it's dead at birth for me
Bluesky is also owned by a corporation and, like Twitter, could sell to a fascist billionaire whenever they find it profitable to do so.
X vs Bluesky is a great microcosm of American team-sports politics. Mastodon is something actually new.
Yeah that's true but perfect is the enemy of good, Mastodon isn't gaining much traction so my hope is that at least we can get a federated protocol, whatever it is
Perfect is the enemy of good, but so is the desire for convenience.
Mastodon gains less traction because it doesn't have an advertising budget, unlike Bluesky. Because Bluesky is owned by a corporation.
Is Bluesky federated? I thought it wasn't. Tumblr also said they were going to, but then just... didn't.
Yeah it does, though it uses their own protocol (ATprotocol) they open sourced it too
also, they already have investors so it’s dead at birth for me
Launching with the immediate intent for profit screams either a scam (Especially with Musk being kind to give up the name, massive red flag).
Yeah
"Early Access is open. $20 to join, $40+ to fight." From twitter.now
xD. The original twitter was free!
Yeah. Not falling for that.
Coates and his coterie
Hah
Imo reviving Twitter as paid ai slop is just making a mockery of it.
Imo twitter was always a joke
FAQ was dead linking when I clicked on it earlier, too.
Yeah. "Lets try centralized algorithmic corporate social media again."
Im sure this attempt will end up just as wholesome.
I'm not claiming Twitter is great.
But this is obviously going to fail, always was obviously going to fail. It's a PR stunt, nothing more.
Twitter will sue them, they'll settle for giving up the name and some token fine, and hopefully they're on the map. Or, their hail mary long shot will pay off and they'll get to call themselves twitter in which case holy shit they're golden. That's the strategy.
It's stupid- they'll lose in court and I doubt whatever they offer is more compelling than what's already out there.
It's stupid
Definitely.
they'll lose in court
I'm not sure they will, genuinely. They intentionally abandoned the domain name for the website... and they're no longer using the logo or name anywhere on their product, or corporate documentation.
The case that it's up for grabs is actually decently strong.
Disney didn't use Steamboat Willie for a while, they didn't lose it....
This is more akin to Disney saying, “We hate mice! Disney is now a chain of casinos and we’re rebranding to 🅱️!”
Could almost be similar to the situation that forced Musk to buy Twitter in the first place, because he of course tweeted that Twitter would never be Twitter again and they were ‘getting rid of the bird’”.
There are more details in the article and older articles linked as well.
Also, with a website that's clearly designed by AI.
What could go wrong
Gonna be digg 2.0 (or 3.0?) all over again.
They're probably trying to give Phoenix vibes with the new logo, but I'm not Pheelin' it.
i can't even resolve the app.twitter.now subdomain, off to a great start
Not sure if we really need more social media.
Yeah, it's already DOA.
If anyone is serious about creating a new centralised social network these days, they have already lost.
It may well be intended as a serious attempt but personally I'm just going to view it as trolling/a gimmick, in which case I don't care how shit the actual platform is. Seems to be more about making a point against Musk than getting a serious userbase.
A comment from a reader of that article said: "Running some real 'Gandalf the White/Twitter as it was meant to be' energy."
And I can agree.
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