Technology

If not decentralized, it's a no go...

The site looks vibe coded. It's possible they just bought the trademark, quickly set up a site and hope to capitalize on the reputation of former Twitter.
The $20 and $40 early access certainly makes it seem like it. Even if that isn't the case, time has shown that centralized social media has flaws so idealists will just stay with Mastodon while the people that want a large user base and easy of use will just use BlueSky instead. IMO there is no market aside from a possible gofundme-invention type exit scam.

Yeah i'il keep using mastodon and bluesky, also, they already have investors so it's dead at birth for me

Lol. It'd be hilarious if this succeeded. It was so dumb of Musk to change the name.

If nothing else we know this project will piss off Elon and that's always a plus.

• 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.

So, I'm just checking..

1. It is not open source?
2. It uses AI to "Fact-Check"?
3. It costs 20$ to join, and possibly more later?

Well, they have chosen interesting path those people behind this thing.

Yeah. "Lets try centralized algorithmic corporate social media again."

Im sure this attempt will end up just as wholesome.

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

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.

Twitter was awful before Musk bought it. Hard pass.

Paid early access? I think I'll pass...

2022: Come on, it's just 8$ it's basically the price of a coffee.

2026: Come on, it's just 20$ it's basically the price of a coffee.

Ah yes, just what the world needs: another Twitter.

Imo reviving Twitter as paid ai slop is just making a mockery of it.

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)

A Masto instance would have been cool. But that is just garbage.

Yay, another centralized service owned by investors. And they want to build on “trust” lmao. Fuck off.

It seems like maybe the commenters here thus far are missing the (obvious from the title) fact that this is not affiliated with Musk or “X” at all? I admire the aggressiveness of this move and I’ll be rooting for them.

The real power move here would be to grab the domain name and run a free Mastodon instance off of it.

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.

Bwahahahaa

Really? The Gemini that got Google sued and found liable for the misinformation it spread? That's who you wanna trust to check for "veracity"?

I'm not paying a $20 entry fee into a walled garden that wastes energy and water to have a text processor guess whether my arrangement of words resembles its training material closely enough.

I didn't like Twitter enough to join it when it didn't cost $20.

These guys are a bunch of morons. All of the comments here are proving as to why.

• Associates with AI
• Wants money to use it
• Doesn't factor that Twitter might not entirely be available after all
• Uses Musk's other imprints, like Grok, on it which may subject them to fail
• More centralized social media is not what we need

I'll give it a few months before they actually are sued into oblivion, to which they'll have the biggest pikachu shocked faces possible.

Finally Twitter's name and logo isn't a ripoff of the X Windowing System(maybe)

Twitter 2

Ooh

Gemini fact checking

Awww