• Puppy@kbin.social
    591·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s fait to just call it Twitter and not “x” or “twitter/x” or “x social” or “Twitter but actually x”

    X will never stick 😅

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
      451·
      1 year ago

      I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

      • Cmot_Dibbler@lemmy.world
        541·
        1 year ago

        I’m not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn’t let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

        Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn’t be even tangentially compared to Prince.

        I much prefer to call it “10”

        • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
          114·
          1 year ago

          This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.

        • OtakuAltair@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          No idea who prince is except he’s a musician but “the site formerly known as Twitter” sounds hilarious

        • Dylpickles@lemmy.world
          616·
          1 year ago

          I think you’re a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn’t even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12. A conversation suddenly brought back to mind by your comment.

          That’s just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            41·
            1 year ago

            It was popularized by the Prince situation whether people know that today or not.

      • saltesc@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 year ago

        It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Leaded gas just started being phased out in the US in 1973 was still in use in the 80s was didn’t stop entirely until 1996. South Africa didn’t ban it until sometime between 2002 and 2006. It’s often used in reference to boomers, but gen x was also affected, even millennials to a lesser degree.

            • Koboldschadenfroh@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              Leaded gas can be used even today by some small propellor planes. At least in my country. I know about leaded gas, but what does that have to do with what I said? If leaded gas was the reason Musk is the way he is, everybody in older generations would be like him.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            He tried to do this 20 years ago with PayPal. This is just a midlife crisis, no grand plan.