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Worked great when the artist formerly known as Prince changed his name to a symbol.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago (11 children)

How about we just stop mentioning it at all?

[–] Tylerdurdon 17 points 1 year ago

So...treat it like your...ex?

[–] Kinglink 11 points 1 year ago

This, I'm so sick of "I want to hurt something... so I'm going to continually talk about it".

It's the worst in games, because all it does is get more people to talk/know/hear about a game. Cyberpunk 2077 was a bad launch, instead of just harping on that, I wish every post was "Instead of Cyberpunk 2077, I'm playing X game and it's amazing" Get people interested in something else... and in general stop talking about this shit.

[–] dustojnikhummer 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy users trying to not talk about Twatter or Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. Prince changed his name to stick it to the record label that was fucking him over. That was his livelihood at stake.

No one needs Twitter. I don't even have an account.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And Prince was so good we would listen to his new stuff no matter what he called himself.

[–] LunchEnjoyer 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw someone on lemmy calling it 'Ten', thought that was quite funny.

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

But ten also sounds kind of cool, we should build our own ten, with blackjack

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer "the ex social media platform"

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[–] zerbey 24 points 1 year ago

I just call it the "I stopped caring about that site a long time ago" site.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I don't call it anything because I don't really talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still calling it Twitter. Always will.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. That website is Twitter and that rapper is Kanye West. I refuse to kowtow to the whims of the ultra-wealthy.

[–] MaxVerstappen 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Kanye goes by something else? You know what, I still don't care. Nevermind.

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[–] squidzorz 18 points 1 year ago

How about we don't talk about it at all?

[–] DrDickHandler 17 points 1 year ago

Who fucking cares? How about we just don't mention that piece of garbage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would rather just not talk about it

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

Prefer to give it 0 energy. Even this comment is pushing it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

10/Ten Elon would hate it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I’ll continue to refer to it the way I do now, which is to not refer to it at all.

[–] Daisyifyoudo 13 points 1 year ago

The amount of posts about Twitter and Musk are flat out disturbing...

[–] Sterile_Technique 12 points 1 year ago

Seeing what Elon Musk wants to do with it, we should probably be calling it "spyware".

[–] Gamey 11 points 1 year ago

We got "#Birdsite" on Mastodon for ages, seems fitting to just continue with that to me! ;)

[–] lyCosmo 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

would be funny if everyone just started calling it "ten".

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[–] paddirn 10 points 1 year ago

I kind of like Xwitter, since the X almost looks like a sideways T, almost like it's gone into disrepair and fallen over, like a billionaire idiot had stopped paying the bills or was sabotaging it with his incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

just call it "Ten" like roman numerals

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just call it Twitter. They're going to either go back to the old branding, or they'll be out of business shortly enough that it wouldn't even make sense to bother referring to it as X.

It's Twitter.

[–] RiceKirby 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will just keep calling it Twitter just like I still say Hotmail.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I still say hotmail. I still have a hotmail account...

[–] delirium 10 points 1 year ago

Too long. I call it shitter.

[–] marx2k 10 points 1 year ago

Alternative suggestion: just let the shot crash and burn and don't spend your time on an alternative platform obsessing about a different platform. Same for reddit.

It really doesn't make this platform better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] over_clox 9 points 1 year ago

I prefer the name Null, just ignore it and move on...

[–] happilybitchycowboy 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On that note, I suggest we rename Reddit to Fuckit

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

I'll keep calling it what it is - Twitter

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[–] Hildegarde 7 points 1 year ago

I would prefer to just not talk about it.

[–] Resol 6 points 1 year ago

I call it Larry.

This was the name used for the Twitter bird from 2010 to 2012 before redesigning it into what we had before 𝕏.

[–] BeigeForce 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m fond of “Titanic”.

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[–] Laticauda 5 points 1 year ago

I say just let it continue to lose its brand value by muddying the waters.

[–] n0m4n 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Formerly Known as Twitter is too long .... FKT hit it on a few levels.

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

No, because that would imply Musk and Twitter is on the same level as TAFKA Prince.

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