Now that he's changed the name and the founders have moved on....

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What's butterfly icon? Did Xitter get a new one?
- That's Bluesky. It's supposed to be a federated social media, but right now there's only one kind of software for it and you can't yet self-host it (although you can self-host your data). The open-source protocol, known as AT, was created by Twitter back in the day, and Jack Dorsey and a bunch of staff were able to rescue it when Musk took over.
  AT does not federate with ActivityPub, but users of either protocol can appear on the other using Bridgy; and some Friendica instances have basic support for AT. The equivalent of "fediverse" is "ATmosphere" (with the first two letters capitalised).
  Since it became public (as opposed to invite-only), Dorsey left the platform and went back to Nostr (yet another microblogging platform, this time built around blockchain :-P).
  It's actually quite a nice place, in my opinion, with a vibe similar to a combination of Twitter and Tumblr.
  Sorry for going into this much detail. I just really like explaining things.
  EDIT: Turns out, the word being thrown around in place of "tweet" was also slang for cum. I have removed it, as this was probably originally a joke.
  
  So do you guys not know what skeet means or....
  
  I'm dying, we really out here trying to convince people to leave Twitter for a site that uses the word "reskeet"
  
  I've just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn't understand. I guess we just use "post" and "repost".
  
  What's wrong with a little skeet shooting?
  
  I've just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn't understand. I guess we just use "post" and "repost".
  
  What's wrong with a little skeet shooting?
  
  Ah, fuck.
  
  Well, thanks for letting me know. Believe it or not, it's not the first time this sort of thing has happened.
  
  I mean you're not wrong. I've seen multiple articles stating that a blue sky version of tweet is a skeet. It's why I've written the entire platform off.
  
  I'll skeet skeet mother fucker
  I'll reskeet god damn!
  
  I've just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn't understand. I guess we just use "post" and "repost".
  
  Thank you for taking into so much detail. I feel pretty well informed now.
- It’s Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter 2.0 platform. The problem is, it makes all of the same mistakes Twitter did. So, it’s just earlier in it it’s absolute-shit-show lifecycle — not actually different.
  
  Why am I not surprised?

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