Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.

als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The following is a tremendously disproportionate analogy given that we’re talking about a microblogging website, but I really don’t think there’s any better term for it:

  It’s really less like you’re calling Twitter by its deadname and more like you’re refusing to call it by its slave name. Twitter didn’t come up with this on its own, some guy just rolled up and said “I’m changing your name because yours isn’t cool enough.” Like, fukken Kunta Kinte.

  Again, very unfortunate that that’s the only comparison that comes to mind but I’m really blanking on anything else. Jean Valjean, I guess. Maybe Darth Vader. Locutus of Borg.

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• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eye for an eye makes the world blind

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