this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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Lyrak is a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on real-time news and monetization options for creators.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

focusing on real-time news and monetization options for creators

Pass.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Techcrunch is mostly a PR release website. I wouldn't trust a thing about new companies and products that's featured on there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

They used to cover tech more generally, but they did switch to mostly only covering startups these days. But I'm not sure what here you don't want to trust, it's on the reader to evaluate the product.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Let me know when I can check it out without owning an iPhone. Web access would be fine.

Doesn't strike me as a company that cares about openness if they are being that exclusive.

For that matter how will federation work with them showing ads and having paid posts like they promise (to 'reward the creators')?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Not yet federating. Months away from federating. The split money policy failed to attract good content every single time it's proposed. Techcrunch should have a article about why it's failed already written.