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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)
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Get your shortnames while the getting's good.

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[–] 116 points 1 week ago (5 children)
  • Cash grab on an old name and hoping people pony up the $20 to join it.
  • Not using ActivityPub or ATProto.

Yeah, it's already DOA.

If anyone is serious about creating a new centralised social network these days, they have already lost.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Shame. A new Twitter that supports all the open protocols would have been cool. Fediverse with a name people recognise.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Isn't that just Mastodon?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Mastodon is not called Twitter, and the vast majority of people have no idea what it is, unfortunately. A Mastodon instance called Twitter would be a great idea, although I think Mastodon doesn't support all the protocols like Friendica does. But Friendica is too unlike Twitter.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    I suppose that could potentially drag Mastodon's developer into a legal fight (if X were to sue them), which would be costly and a distraction.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    and the sign up doesn't even work, just 404s

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Would be funny if Twitter/X Supports ATProto. Maybe also don't give up the X Brand and you could interact with Bluesky users or twitter or X Handles and if you Bridge to the Fediverse yeah that works to. I could really delete my x/Twitter Profile and say. Hey My new Handle is my bridged Mastodon Account.

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