• Aganim@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’ll just continue referring to it as Twitter. If Musk insists on deadnaming his kid, I’ll keep on deadnaming his adopted child.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Ima throw in my mini lecture.

    Calling X twitter, or even ex-twitter or xitter just gives musk a claim to validity.

    What twitter was is dead. Allowing the name to be used for the abortion that X is just makes X have a nonexistent connection to what little good twitter had.

    Twitter is dead. X rose from its corpse like a maggot, only without the redeeming environmental benefits.

    It’s X now. Pretending otherwise makes it seem like there’s anything useful left in it when there isn’t.

    If you want to fuck with it, try something like musX or whatever that removes the connection to what twitter was.

    • 🅱🅴🅿🅿🅸@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I agree, calling it Twitter just gives the impression of denial that it’s now X, denial that it’s owned by Elon, denial that it’s now shit (it was shit before, worse now though), and feels like justification for continued use of it.

      Just call it X in disgust, and move on to Mastodon or something