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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)
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Get your shortnames while the getting's good.

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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm poor.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

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