Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.
Finally Twitter’s name and logo isn’t a ripoff of the X Windowing System
Paid early access? I think I’ll pass…
hahaha, this is the first thing I though after the idiot changed the iconic name to nothing, go twitter! (no, I’m not joining bluebird, but I like the trust threshold idea)
If nothing else we know this project will piss off Elon and that’s always a plus.
Ah yes, just what the world needs: another Twitter.
Twitter was awful before Musk bought it. Hard pass.
Yeah. Not falling for that.
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
Removed by mod
Coates and his coterie
Hah
Yeah i’il keep using mastodon and bluesky, also, they already have investors so it’s dead at birth for me
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).
Smells like deception. Please come to our “New” site with the same name but this one is totally not uncool or handing all your personal info to Musk.
But spend more money? $8 on that piece of shit “X” site. Fucking joke show.
But you can pay $20 for the premium instantaneous social media aggregate algorithm site! You’ll get all the top paid for profit sponsored posts first before anyone else! Just imagine retweeting your friends minutes before they see this million dollar donated Pepsi ad that is collaborating with Oreo! Whooooaaaaaa! You’ll be the most popular person in your friend group for 15 seconds! But make sure you share first or else you’ll be ostracized by everyone because you didn’t pay an extra $9.99 for ultra fast retweet privilege!
Yeah
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.
After seeing what happened to Twitter following the purchase, I think anyone who buys Bluesky would be very wary about trashing the brand in the same way.
Don’t just look at the company profits. After Musk bought Twitter, Trump won and Musk gained direct access to the government. I think, that’s a pretty good return on the investment.
But most importantly: Elon now has his own big media company. No longer are the other rich guys ridiculing him because he doesn’t have his own media empire. He’s now a real full member in the club.Do not underestimate the power of capitalism
Yeah but ppl are on bluesky
Have you met people?
who needs people when you can talk to leftist nerds ?
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
Mastodon has a cultural problem… too woke, too many queers and freaky people, autistics, and activitists shilling for lame causes or selling (needless, silly) things. In the real world these people are 3-5% of the population. On the Fediverse, they are 75-90% of the population. Not a place that the other 95-98% of the population really wants to be. The mentally ill, each one given a bullhorn.
Being aware of stuff is a fault?!
You look like a mentally ill not them, sorry
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.
Bluesky is federated if you have $10,000,000
Yeah it does, though it uses their own protocol (ATprotocol) they open sourced it too
The AT Protocol was open from the start. It’s not the issue and is actually rather clever in parts, in my limited understanding.
The issue has more been that there was no way to run another server than the main one at first, and then that you could but it couldn’t interoperate. I understand this is now something of the past, but I don’t think I’ve ever come across a link to a bluesky post that wasn’t on bsky.app.
Looking a bit into it, it looks like all you need to do is host a Personal Data Server (PDS): https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#self-hosting-a-pds
then that you could but it couldn’t interoperate
So now you can? I hope so…
Anyway yeah, i never seen someone self host their own instance even though it should be possible
Imo reviving Twitter as paid ai slop is just making a mockery of it.
FAQ was dead linking when I clicked on it earlier, too.
Imo twitter was always a joke
i can’t even resolve the app.twitter.now subdomain, off to a great start
They’re probably trying to give Phoenix vibes with the new logo, but I’m not Pheelin’ it.
Ohhh Noos! The branding I choose which no one wanted or ever adopted is tarnished by my own actions from the last two years… Let’s rebrand and hopefully the user base will no longer associate my actions with this service anymore!
Read the article next time. Another company claims X abandoned the name and is launching a competetor using “Twitter” “Tweets” and Twitter.now url.
