Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.
A Masto instance would have been cool. But that is just garbage.
mastodon (like lemmy) is the epitome of uncool
It’s running through servers, they objectively must stay cool.
Should’ve been a Nitter instance
So, I’m just checking…
- It is not open source?
- It uses AI to “Fact-Check”?
- It costs 20$ to join, and possibly more later?
Well, they have chosen interesting path those people behind this thing.
If only it was just a Mastodon instance (was thinking about creating “Twatter”, as a joke).
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.
2030: Come on, it’s just 50 bottle caps, it’s basically the price of a coffee.
2050: What’s coffee?
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.
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.
Because AI boosters made people believe not using AI/not wanting to engage with AI generated output is an extremist position, so you must use AI, just read the output, and maybe rewrite it.
I did always think it was stupid that he bought a site with pretty great branding (twitter/tweets/the bird graphics etc) and immediately got rid of most of that branding.
The worst part for me personally (and maybe nobody else) is I love the band the xx but wearing their merch these days makes it seem like I maybe support anything musk based.
I’m already doing well here so i’ll pass.
Yay, another centralized service owned by investors. And they want to build on “trust” lmao. Fuck off.
If it wasn’t $20 to join, I might have tried it. But considering they haven’t even finished their core case saying whether or not they’re even allowed to use the branding yet, and they’re trying to get $20 or $40 out of every new user, I’m going to pass.
I will check back at a later date to see its progress, but right now I don’t think it’s worth it.
He gave up the name so that we stop using it to refer to his pile of shit.
Damn if it only fediverse user snagged the domain. It will be fun watching Elon seeth about it
Twitter 2
Ooh
Gemini fact checking
Awww
Oh! Oh…
