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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign

[–] moosetwin 50 points 1 year ago (7 children)

my guy you don't have to censor the word twitter

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.

[–] flatplutosociety 8 points 1 year ago

Apple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All that does is give them cred in the rap community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

to be fair, the word Mastodon was being censored on Twitter at one point, but doesn't mean the other way happens in the Fediverse.

[–] xxcarpaii 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe they were talking about twatter

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'The site formerly known as twitter'

The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“TSFKAT”.

Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”.

I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I liked someone's suggestion to pronounce it as "ten"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)

[–] cyberpunk007 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean DMX is now running the show over there?

[–] 1847953620 1 points 1 year ago

They don't know who we be

[–] zerozaku 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Br*tish, Fra*ce

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You accidentally did a markdown there!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's why censoring with 🤮 is better:
Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch

[–] zerozaku 1 points 1 year ago

Oops haha. Fixed it. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just "birdsite" or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I'm posting on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Musk himself is censoring Twitter

[–] shroomato 5 points 1 year ago

It's spelled twatter

[–] 17451k 25 points 1 year ago

It would be funny to censor X just with a single *