Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.

  • Crakila@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago
    • 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.

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      8 hours 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.

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

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          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.

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            I suppose that could potentially drag Mastodon’s developer into a legal fight (if X were to sue them), which would be costly and a distraction.

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      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

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      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.