Worked great when the artist formerly known as Prince changed his name to a symbol.
Some publications often do this. At least on Reuteres, as well as other news sites, I’ve seen that Twitter/X is now referred to as “X, formerly Twitter”, probably to avoid confusion.
But “the website formerly known as Twitter” is just too lengthy for everyday conversation. I just call it Twitter, everyone knows what it means
How about we just stop mentioning it at all?
Yep, this is exactly the kind of worthless post that started making reddit unbearable years ago.
Can we please not immediately ruin this new platform with this shit so soon?
Considering we still constantly talk about reddit… no it’s already been ruined.
Well, you can block me if you are so upset by the quality of my statements…
Why bring up R?
Why are so many posts here bitching/commenting about other sites?
So many posts here sound like someone after a breakup trying to prove to the word just how over their ex they are…but refuse to talk about anything else.
I was talking about OP.
In particular, it’s low effort, attempting to be funny/snarky about about a pop culture or political news item, usually stolen from somewhere else and posted to the wrong community (why is this on asklemmy?), but it gets attention because it panders to the majority of the user base.
My bad. I’ll delete.
This is a better explanation and should be with your original complaint. It really fleshes it out.
Lemmy users trying to not talk about Twatter or Reddit
So…treat it like your…ex?
But calling them xcretes instead of tweets is super good
Love it! Does that meant tweets are now xcretions?
xcrement
This, I’m so sick of “I want to hurt something… so I’m going to continually talk about it”.
It’s the worst in games, because all it does is get more people to talk/know/hear about a game. Cyberpunk 2077 was a bad launch, instead of just harping on that, I wish every post was “Instead of Cyberpunk 2077, I’m playing X game and it’s amazing” Get people interested in something else… and in general stop talking about this shit.
Nah, I’m just going to keep calling it Shitshow
I prefer “the ex social media platform”
I like calling it “ten”. I don’t think Musk would like it, so that is what I will call it.
Nah. Prince changed his name to stick it to the record label that was fucking him over. That was his livelihood at stake.
No one needs Twitter. I don’t even have an account.
And Prince was so good we would listen to his new stuff no matter what he called himself.
I’d really rather forget it forever.
Would rather just not talk about it
Prefer to give it 0 energy. Even this comment is pushing it.
What is “it”? I don’t know what we’re talking about here :)
Seeing what Elon Musk wants to do with it, we should probably be calling it “spyware”.
In short, ex-twitter?
I prefer the name Null, just ignore it and move on…
I liked the idea of pronouncing it “10” like the Roman numeral. It’s not necessarily incorrect, and it fucks with Elon’s ego
I’m going with the Cyrillic pronunciation: Zh
Cyrillic Х is “Kh”, Ж is “Zh”.
Even better. Sounds like you’re a little sick every time you say the name.
I’ve been pronouncing it like that sound a gameshow buzzer makes when you get something wrong or run out of time.
The eXsocial media company.
So does a “tweet” become a “message/action formerly known as a tweet?” That’s gonna get tiresome reeeeeal fast.
I love it.
“I was on the website formerly known as Twitter and I read this really funny message formerly known as a tweet about how Elon Musk is totally botching the website formerly known as Twitter. I totally action formerly known as retweeted it.”
Tweets are now called “X-crement”
That is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.
Would be nice if we could call them TWATS
My thoughts exactly.
I’ve been having fun writing a dumb userscript to help me cope with this.
Yes, it can put back a bird of your choosing as a logo, but why stop there.
Instead of tweeting on Twitter, I can now spez on Reddit, skeet on Bluesky, or just eXecrate on X, the Elon way.
It’s ridiculous and pointless, and I’m not sorry.
I prefer to “Toot” on Mastodon or “Ignore all this pointless bullshit” on Kbin
@metaStatic @CyberTaco @itsnotlupus
When I’m done with Lemmy for the day, I like to creep on my AskLemmy users from Mastodon.
🍗 (the website formerly known as Twitter)
