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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 hours ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de
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    What a dumb name. This whole Twitter -> X rebranding was stupid to begin with, why would one imitate that?

    Also - Mastodon?

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    They should have called it XXX.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

    Kind of them to get that out of the way in the first sentence. No further reading required.

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      Lol, why not blood samples? IDs and photos can be faked by AI but not blood…yet.

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        https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/news-blog/lab-creates-fake-dna-evidence-2009-08-18/

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        Lol, why not blood samples?

        Could just mail in a stool sample.

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        What was that movie with the gentic id stuff, gattaca? Yeah, shouldn’t give them too many “good” ideas…

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        You’re wishing a glorious doom upon us, my friend.

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      Ah man, I almost got excited for a second…

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