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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm just going to keep calling it Twitter, and I'm honestly unsure of why everyone else, media outlets included, aren't doing the same.

[–] mindbleach 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter, Facebook, Blackwater.

Ain't playing these games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will die quicker if we call it X. Its just such an impractical name.

[–] JustZ 2 points 1 year ago

Seriously. Can an x even be trademarked?

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

I still like "Birdsite", been using that on Mastodon for years evdn tho I have no clue why everyone started doing so

[–] Polydot 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

because other platform names are banned on tiktok

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

I never used Tiktok and I have my doubts many other Mastodon users do but I guess it could originate from something like that

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago

All the more reason to go anywhere else.

When a platform thinks it owns you, leave.

[–] Spudwart 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like how Anakin became Darth Vader.

Twitter fell to the Musk Side. Twitter may be inside, somewhere.

But the instant X started executing order 66, the line was crossed.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 1 points 1 year ago

But remember: Even before Order 66 Anakin was slaughtering Sandpeople and creeping on Padme.