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this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2026
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Is Trump-Hitler2028 still available? I will settle for hotBillionaireGulag.
Twitter, formally X, formally Twitter
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.
sounds like Shitler himself launched the "new site" for some extra money grabbing.
If only it was just a Mastodon instance (was thinking about creating "Twatter", as a joke).
They'll fail pretty quickly I bet, so the Mastodon instance could still happen later!
Fucking lol
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?
:(
Literally every year since the internet was created: the dollar sign goes before the number, my dude.
The dollar sign in English, maybe. But other languages and currencies have the symbol after the value, so it's easy to get confused
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Didn't know since we don't follow this convention where I'm from.
Shrugs
Every one of these symbols goes before the number: $€£¥₹
Where are you from where it comes after? What currency do you use?
The only time this comes after the number, that I am aware of, is when you use abbreviations like USD or EUR instead of the symbol.
It's language specific. In english it comes before the number. In many other languages it comes after.
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Ohhh Noos! The branding I choose which no one wanted or ever adopted is tarnished by my own actions from the last two years… Let’s rebrand and hopefully the user base will no longer associate my actions with this service anymore!
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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.
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Should've been a Nitter instance
Yay, another centralized service owned by investors. And they want to build on “trust” lmao. Fuck off.
but it's got AI fact checking! /s
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.
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