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[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago
[-] fubo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it's a Nazi shithole.

[-] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Furball@sh.itjust.works 80 points 3 days ago

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

[-] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

I feel old.

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[-] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 26 points 2 days ago

Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.

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[-] Surp@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

Sorry twitter was always trash

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It really is saying something that it's waaay worse now.

[-] mogranja@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don't refer to it in any way.

[-] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago
[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

"X" in Chinese is pronounced "sh", so I approve.

Xitter (pronounced shitter)

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago
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[-] paladin3494@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago

Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity

[-] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name

For me, it’s simpler than that: I’m gonna deadname his company as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter

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[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.

Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.

Noped right out.

I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 17 points 2 days ago

They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days 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.

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days 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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[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago

People now have fond memories of twitter? Insane.

[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

I don't understand why anyone would care this much about a social media website

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[-] uienia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 18 points 3 days ago

But Twitter has always been shit.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Not really. It was fun to talk to people that you barely knew. It was kinda like a hybrid of a chatroom and a forum.

But it grew to become shit.

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago

Those people sold it to musk. They were tech bros whose goal from the start was to get a massive buyout and bail. They don't deserve your respect anymore than musk does.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I mean lets not overdo it the algorithms were becoming very trash before it was bought up but it was usable. Peak twitter was like 2017

[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days 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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[-] calabast@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days 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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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

We should call it "X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter." Every time. Yes it sounds ridiculous, because it is.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago

This isn't a shower thought

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago
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