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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Not even close. I just refuse to call that racist fueled rubbish heap Twitter.

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Fair point. But I can also see why people don't want to call it by the name the current owner wants you to use.

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[+] 3abas@lemmy.world -27 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The stubbornness of calling it Twitter is really silly. Imagine insisting Edge is AcTuAlLy Internet Explorer, same energy.

It's called x now, you access it by going to c.com. it's stupid, but you need to face it and accept that Twitter and what Twitter used to be is gone.

Stop using the Nazi platform, period. This refusal to let go of Twitter and still giving Elon money and influence by continuing to use his platform while insisting you're making some sort of statement by making fun of him and calling it Twitter is... Silly. What's the end game?

Twitter is dead. Let it go.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

You need a better example. Edge was specifically not Internet Explorer. For quite a while, both existed. They were separate programs. Also going to twitter.com still takes you to where you wanna go lol, it just redirects.

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[+] 3abas@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I guess you will call Nike Blue Ribbon Sports because they still have blueribbonsports.com, and certainly all the cool kids still say WWF because WWE is stupid, and I remember when everyone refused to call ebay anything but AuctionWeb, and don't forget how everyone refused to accept that Research In Motion became BlackBerry. Almost forgot how nobody called Apple Music anything but Beats Music, and the SyFy channel will always be SciFi, and Paramount+ is universally rejected as a replacement for CBS All Access... It's not hard to come up with examples, this happens all the time... lol

It's a brand, and it changed. It'll never be Twitter again, it's the Nazi platform X now, and keeping ownership of the Twitter.com domain name isn't exactly proof Twitter is still Twitter, so much has been changed about it beyond content moderation and Nazi propaganda distribution, from content access to monetization.

I personally avoid using the Nazi platform, but feel free to continue supporting it while "making fun" of its name change like that's consequential at all.

Don't engage with the ideas, downvote and run away. Your precious Twitter needs you to "stand up" to Elon by continuing to use his platform.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Pump the brakes. Never said I support using Twitter. I was just saying you don't have to "go to x.com" to get there. Which is an argument you used.

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's the primary domain... Twitter.com forwards to it, you do have to go to x.com, even if your browser is making that process mostly transparent for you.

Do you disagree that it's not called Twitter anymore? Do you disagree that calling people stupid for calling it x is stupid?

The guy heiled Hitler twice on live tv and people are still using his platform because "it's still Twitter"... It's dumb.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I disagree that everyone still calling it Twitter are still using Twitter and doing it as a coping mechanism. Also I thought a couple of other things said weren't the best for making your point but I already pointed them out.

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where have you pointed them out?

You told me to come up with a better example, I came up with several, and they still of course have the old domains.

If it's not a coping mechanism, what is it? What is the end game? Enlighten me...

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

See my first comment here if you're confused about where I pointed them out.

And the "end game" is just clowning on a dumb thing Musk did. The rebranding specifically. That's it. It's not deeper than that.

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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You're clowning on it by insisting the name didn't change? Okay...

I call it x, because that highlights that the dumbass Nazi killed a very valuable brand and changed it to something dumb. I don't call people who call it x dumb, because that's its new name. You're not clowning on Muskrat, you're clowning on a random person who simply referred to content on the website x (formerly Twitter, because the dumbass Nazi paid out his ass for it to turn it into the Nazi platform X).

See my first comment here if you're confused about where I pointed them out.

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I said companies change names, you asked for better examples and posited that it's still Twitter because twitter.com forwards to x.com, I provided several examples of brands changing and keeping the old domain, you deflected and accused me of making the stupid domain argument in the first place, and completely ignored your answered request for better examples.

Weird.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago*

Nobody calling it Twitter is denying that the name changed. You're seriously overthinking this and making it into something it's not.

completely ignored your answered request for better examples.

No I didn't. The only reason I ever mentioned that again was because you seemed to be confused what I was commenting about and when I told you, you asked where I said it.