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.

• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯

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  • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    unicode!

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Because it’s text.

    There are more kind of letters then just our latin alphabet. Cyrillic, aboriginal Canadian and even Chinese and Japanese can be typed by just text for instance （日本語の例え）

    In the same vein, mathematical and other scientific symbols can be typed using just text, and 𝕏 is the symbol that stands in place for arbitrary distance in a formula.

    Basically, it’s just a (mathematical) letter, it can be typed.
    That’s also why their new CEO had difficulties copyrighting it; it’s just a letter, after all!

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      As a sidenote, looking up what the mathematical symbol actually means gave me this gem

      𝕏 redirects here, for the social media, see Twitter

      Even the Wikipedia community refuses to acknowledge this!

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      • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        see the talk page of twitter

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      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Image

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a distinct ascii character

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    • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      not in ascii!!! in unicode!!!

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• satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nice. 👍

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