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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] crakila@lemmy.world 78 points 4 hours ago (4 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.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 hour 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.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Isn't that just Mastodon?

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 minutes ago

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.

[–] TRex91@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour 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.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Somewhere in there is step 3: profit

I want to start a business that fleeces these rubes, how does an average man break into the bullshit game