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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 242 points 2 months ago* (46 children)

I hope this takes off and people start using "tweet" and "twitter" again and it makes "x" completely irrelevant like his Hitler salute should have

Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I'm out

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  • [–] 170 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

    Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

    Well, they need something to pay the lawyers with once Musk takes notice.

    Edit: I've just discovered this interesting concept called "reading the article" and found out that they've already been sued, though it's still not entirely settled.

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  • [–] 119 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article”

    Spread the word my brother! You've got to let everyone know about this new fad!

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I read it but honestly, probably 80% of the time I do not. Because articles are very often full of pop ups and ads and tracking and paywalls, and are unnecessarily verbose (most can be summarized in 1-2 sentences), and are just republishing someone else's work while adding nothing, and simultaneously devoid of useful information or any actual sources.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Some of that can be solved with Firefox and unblock.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    100% can be solved by knowingly making a glaringly obviously false claim about the topic and someone will correct you in a dickish tone while citing the article

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  • [–] 75 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    https://twitter.now/

    vibe coded slop asking for $20 bucks to sign up.. i think I'm okay

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think I've ever seen that many em dashes ever. Not even in the most copy/paste AI slop wall of text. Holy moly.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    Wow you were not kidding. Some of them are extra awkward and unnatural too, it's almost a parody of what slop text looks like.

    We believe people should have more control over what they see — and more transparency about the information in front of them.

    An early illustration of the idea — you decide how much low-trust noise reaches your feed:

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

    They probably need the money to pay for their AI-based "fact-checking":

    A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

    Using a technology that's known for making shit up, for fact-checking, is so dumb, but it will probably bring in investors because AI.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Do they expect everything posted to be just news and information that can be fact-checked? Is this AI going to fact-check my opinions and shitposts too?

    The homepage feels like AI slop too.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Are we sure it’s not mostly still bots on Twitter? I deleted my account back then and have not been back.

    At least, not willingly back, since some people still hyperlink to Twitter directly rather than just sharing screenshots of whatever the content was. So you click the text hyperlink thinking it’s to a web article, only for it to bring you to some random string of tweets visibly displayed in the least logical order.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    it cost $20 to join?! I'm out

    Yep, I can't spend the money now, which is probably true for a lot of people, and I'm definitely gonna forget this is a thing by the time it's free or I have the money, which is probably true for a lot of people.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Dude reread that post.

    “I hope this takes off and makes the Nazi platform irrelevent….but not for $20. I’m okay with Nazis for $20.”

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'm poor.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Same. I’m not calling you cheap. I’m pointing out that saying $20 to pop a Nazi’s balloon shouldn’t be an offensive ask.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah, everyone is outraged at being a product when using free services, but then also outraged at paid ones.

    I'm a bit suspicious of how they want to implement scoring, I feel like it's either going to be gamed by users or rigged by owners, but otherwise it looks fine as an idea and as a replacement for xitter

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