Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

…As a “founder”; we’ll see how long that lasts

but til then at least, I’m out too

Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

Well, they need something to pay the lawyers with once Musk takes notice.

Edit: I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article” and found out that they’ve already been sued, though it’s still not entirely settled.

I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article”

Spread the word my brother! You’ve got to let everyone know about this new fad!

I read it but honestly, probably 80% of the time I do not. Because articles are very often full of pop ups and ads and tracking and paywalls, and are unnecessarily verbose (most can be summarized in 1-2 sentences), and are just republishing someone else’s work while adding nothing, and simultaneously devoid of useful information or any actual sources.

Some of that can be solved with Firefox and unblock.

100% can be solved by knowingly making a glaringly obviously false claim about the topic and someone will correct you in a dickish tone while citing the article

Works for me 😏

Your grandad’s AI summary, if you will.

I’ve seen AI summaries that looked like the AI had not read the article.

In fairness, that could be said of some of the know-it-all summaries as well. 😅

I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article”

What dark magic is this

I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article”

This is liberal propaganda FAKE NEWS

How do I learn this power?

This here is an excellent guide:

Edit: I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article”

Jokes aside: I think it’s great that you read the article, then went back to both acknowledge that it covered your point and admit that you didn’t before.

I’ve just discovered this interesting concept called “reading the article”

Wait. Is that allowed?

Are we sure it’s not mostly still bots on Twitter? I deleted my account back then and have not been back.

At least, not willingly back, since some people still hyperlink to Twitter directly rather than just sharing screenshots of whatever the content was. So you click the text hyperlink thinking it’s to a web article, only for it to bring you to some random string of tweets visibly displayed in the least logical order.

Oh I’m positive it’s mainly bots and morons on x

Sounds like a grift.

Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

They probably need the money to pay for their AI-based “fact-checking”:

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.

Using a technology that’s known for making shit up, for fact-checking, is so dumb, but it will probably bring in investors because AI.

Every tweet

Poop emoji - this has been fact checked but can not be independently verified due to lack of context

Do they expect everything posted to be just news and information that can be fact-checked? Is this AI going to fact-check my opinions and shitposts too?

The homepage feels like AI slop too.

AI is very good at classification

“I just watched movie. It sucked!”

“Beep boop. According to trustworthy, verifiable sources, movie does not suck. Sanction : immediate ban.”

Dude reread that post.

“I hope this takes off and makes the Nazi platform irrelevent….but not for $20. I’m okay with Nazis for $20.”

I’m poor.

Same. I’m not calling you cheap. I’m pointing out that saying $20 to pop a Nazi’s balloon shouldn’t be an offensive ask.

Yeah, everyone is outraged at being a product when using free services, but then also outraged at paid ones.

I’m a bit suspicious of how they want to implement scoring, I feel like it’s either going to be gamed by users or rigged by owners, but otherwise it looks fine as an idea and as a replacement for xitter

Given that it’s charging an entry fee right now, and is VC backed and corpo controlled…

Probably a fash - or at least neoliberal - app already. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, no more and no less.

Let them eat eachother.

$20 isn’t just $20 in most countries around the world.
For some it is more than they can make in a month. Tho those people probably never seen the Internet.

I hope that Mastodon takes off and makes the Nazi platform irrelevant. For free. Independently of corporate and investor goodwill.

what what term do people use for tweets on shitter now? just “posts”?

Xhit

Tweets

x-crete

twitter.now

vibe coded slop asking for $20 bucks to sign up… i think I’m okay

That site was blocked by spectrum when I tried it

Lol

You can’t pay me enough to click on that link.

Oh fuck this is embarrassing

Probably a pre-emptive block to stop scam sites from using domain that are similar.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many em dashes ever. Not even in the most copy/paste AI slop wall of text. Holy moly.

Wow you were not kidding. Some of them are extra awkward and unnatural too. It’s almost a parody of what slop text looks like.

We believe people should have more control over what they see — and more transparency about the information in front of them.

An early illustration of the idea — you decide how much low-trust noise reaches your feed:

people start using “tweet” and “twitter” again

I never stopped

No one else did either

I called it X-twitter. I didn’t really use “tweet” though; mostly because I tend to talk about toots more than tweets.

I tend to talk about my toots after I eat a can of spicy chili beans right out the can

it cost $20 to join?

Shit, that’s twice as much as it used to cost to join Something Awful, and I bet you don’t even get access to furry porno.

I’d still be hesitant if they paid me 20$ to join.

it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

Yep, I can’t spend the money now, which is probably true for a lot of people, and I’m definitely gonna forget this is a thing by the time it’s free or I have the money, which is probably true for a lot of people.