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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.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always call it ‘X, the everything app.’

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  • RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.

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  • calabast@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, what you personally call it isn’t really going to make any difference, so if we’re trying to optimize your mental health, just reframe the naritive in your head. You’re still calling it Twitter to honor what it used to be, back when you respected it. You are refusing to acknowledge the nazi dumpster fire it has become, even if you still need to talk about it.

    I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I’ll call it Twitter just because I think it would annoy Elon, if he somehow knew.

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I’ll call it Twitter just because calling it ex was confusing in almost every context.

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  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not like it was a hostile take over. They played their part when Musk talked shit and they sued him to follow through with the purchase. They could have easily kept it, but they wanted the money instead.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Twitter has never, even dating back to it’s inception, never ever ever turned a profit. The whole reason Elon mockingly offered to buy it was because they were looking for, and struggling to find, a buyer. They just wanted to break even and walk away.

      Instead Elon was like “Hur dur I got 43 billion for ya!” And Twitter was like “SOLD! No takesies backsies!”. And Elon was like “Wait, wut?”

      And then Elon carried a sink through the lobby in protest.

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    • kevindqc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It was a public company, the shareholders would’ve sued them, no?

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    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not that they are blameless - far from it - but they had a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the deal because it was good for their shareholders

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s not the case at all, though it’s very often believed to be and stated as such on here and Reddit.

        nytimes.com/…/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-…

        web.archive.org/…/are-u-s-companies-legally-oblig…

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Fiduciary duty to get profit” is a libertarian myth. It has no legal basis.

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    • Madrigal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OP might be talking about the user base, not the owners.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Twitter is gone. It died the day Elon fired most of its staff.

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  • Furball@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok well maybe a beacon of glory is a bit out there for Twitter, but there was a time where it was actually cool and unique.

      Like back in the day where you could interact with it over plain SMS lol

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      • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That was like the first year or two at most iirc

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      • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My poor parents phone bill when I started using Twitter over SMS…

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    • anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Twitter was a turd. X is a turd marinaded in diarrhea sauce.

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      • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye

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  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way I look at it, if Elon Musk is gonna deadname his own child, I’m sure as shot gonna deadname the corporation he tanked

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    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eye for an eye makes the world blind

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    • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Xitter (pronounced shitter)

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Stylized as 𝕏itter

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      • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nice. 👍

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