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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
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.
Spread the word my brother! You've got to let everyone know about this new fad!
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.
Some of that can be solved with Firefox and unblock.
What dark magic is this
This is liberal propaganda FAKE NEWS
Jokes aside: I think it's great that you read the article, then went back to both acknowledge that it covered your point and admit that you didn't before.
Wait. Is that allowed?
How do I learn this power?
This here is an excellent guide:
https://twitter.now/
vibe coded slop asking for $20 bucks to sign up.. i think I'm okay
Oh fuck this is embarrassing
That site was blocked by spectrum when I tried it
Lol
I don't think I've ever seen that many em dashes ever. Not even in the most copy/paste AI slop wall of text. Holy moly.
Wow you were not kidding. Some of them are extra awkward and unnatural too, it's almost a parody of what slop text looks like.
You can't pay me enough to click on that link.
They probably need the money to pay for their AI-based "fact-checking":
Using a technology that's known for making shit up, for fact-checking, is so dumb, but it will probably bring in investors because AI.
Do they expect everything posted to be just news and information that can be fact-checked? Is this AI going to fact-check my opinions and shitposts too?
The homepage feels like AI slop too.
"I just watched movie. It sucked!"
"Beep boop. According to trustworthy, verifiable sources, movie does not suck. Sanction : immediate ban."
AI is very good at classification
Every tweet
Poop emoji - this has been fact checked but can not be independently verified due to lack of context
...As a "founder"; we'll see how long that lasts
but til then at least, I'm out too
Shit, that's twice as much as it used to cost to join Something Awful, and I bet you don't even get access to furry porno.
I'd still be hesitant if they paid me 20$ to join.
Sounds like a grift.
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.
Oh I'm positive it's mainly bots and morons on x
I never stopped
No one else did either
I called it X-twitter. I didn't really use "tweet" though; mostly because I tend to talk about toots more than tweets.
I tend to talk about my toots after I eat a can of spicy chili beans right out the can
what what term do people use for tweets on shitter now? just "posts"?
x-crete
Xhit
Tweets
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.
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.”
Given that it's charging an entry fee right now, and is VC backed and corpo controlled....
Probably a fash - or at least neoliberal - app already. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more and no less.
Let them eat eachother.
I'm poor.
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.
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
I hope that Mastodon takes off and makes the Nazi platform irrelevant. For free. Independently of corporate and investor goodwill.