Reclipse to [email protected] • 2 years agoBBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instancesocial.bbcexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up11.84Kcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11.84Kexternal-linkBBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instancesocial.bbcReclipse to [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square147fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish72•2 years agoI may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
minus-squaremoosetwin@FMHYlinkfedilinkEnglish48•2 years agomy guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish28•2 years agoThe childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.
minus-squareWilkerlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoto be fair, the word Mastodon was being censored on Twitter at one point, but doesn’t mean the other way happens in the Fediverse.
minus-squareAlexisFRlinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoWell you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years agoAye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoAll that does is give them cred in the rap community.
minus-squareFlat Pluto SocietylinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoApple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?
minus-squarezerozakulinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoIt’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years agoYou accidentally did a markdown there!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 years agoThat’s why censoring with 🤮 is better: Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoI literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just “birdsite” or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I’m posting on.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-22 years agoMaybe they were talking about twatter
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•2 years agoAre we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
minus-squarenudny ekscentryklinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoI liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•2 years ago‘The site formerly known as twitter’ The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 years ago“TSFKAT”. Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”. I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoI still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoDoes that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•2 years agoIt would be funny to censor X just with a single *
I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
my guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter
The childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.
to be fair, the word Mastodon was being censored on Twitter at one point, but doesn’t mean the other way happens in the Fediverse.
Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
Aye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.
All that does is give them cred in the rap community.
Apple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?
It’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
You accidentally did a markdown there!
That’s why censoring with 🤮 is better:
Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
brish
It’s spelled twatter
I literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just “birdsite” or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I’m posting on.
Musk himself is censoring Twitter
Maybe they were talking about twatter
Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
I liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
‘The site formerly known as twitter’
The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
“TSFKAT”.
Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”.
I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.
I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
Does that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
They don’t know who we be
It would be funny to censor X just with a single *