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Potato_in_my_anus ,

This is just another of Elon’s stunt to increase traffic to Twitter.

jaywalker ,

Or is he flushing Twitter down the Xitter?

SwallowsDick ,

In B4 Musk tweets this

Mozami ,
@Mozami@kbin.social avatar

Bad choice after bad choice.

voxov7 ,
@voxov7@lemmy.world avatar

Why aren’t posts on mastodon called “toots”?

MargotRobbie ,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

But they…were?

gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-e…

Chadus_Maximus ,

They were called toots and they fucking got rid of it? How uncreative can you be!?

Swedneck ,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

we can keep calling them toots

Owlchemist ,

I vote for calling them twats instead

MudMan ,
@MudMan@kbin.social avatar

People still use it all the time, often ironically.

I'll say that, fart jokes aside, I like just saying "posts" for everything because at this point, and in an interconnected set of networks where we're all using multiple services I've frankly outgrown the need to brand each bit of text I spew onto the Internet. It's the same reason I say "I'll text you" instead of "I'll whatsapp you" or whatever.

psycrow ,

TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.

WhoRoger ,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

Is that why I’ve seen more people today wanting to bitch about politics in completely random threads?

CharlieAus ,

Addiction it is. They think they are advocating for health and social justice. But they’re not. They’re just addicted to Twitter/X. I mean… it’s owned by someone who pays fascists to post on there, but they are still there? WTAF?

CharlieAus ,

Mastadon is where the smart people hang out… X is the fascist site and Facebook/Threads is the frivolous and stupid site.

Ktheone ,

Nah, Facebook and x are both fascistic sides because of the amount of qanons and magats I’ve seen on facebook

CharlieAus ,

Hence why I haven’t had a Facebook or Instagram account in years.

gravitational_anomaly ,

this is sooo complicated

It is, objectively, significantly more complicated, though.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

When is rebranding ever good for users/consumers?

ren ,
@ren@lemmy.world avatar

Most rebrands keep an element of the original or adopt how the customer refers to it. Think Dunkin dropping “Donuts” and Kentucky Friend Chicken becoming KFC.

All good.

But for Dunkin Donuts to suddenly rename itself “Place” - not so good.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

When they change from a racist name and or mascot.

tabular ,
@tabular@lemmy.world avatar

That rebranding seems to me as just hiding past misdeeds. I’m not charitable enough to take apologies from companies at face-value, there would need to be some effort to explain and show change too.

I_Miss_Daniel ,
@I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social avatar

Who knew he was a ZZ Top Fan?

PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=WPTfIPHLUcw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

xptiger ,

Once the celebrities or official pages or figure people leave that site for its dismaying complications, that will be the doom of it as followers of those don’t have other significant reasons to stay.

lechatron ,
@lechatron@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder how much x.com cost to purchase, or if it was just a domain twitter/Musk had lying around.

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    lechatron ,
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    Curious if he sold it to twitter, I can’t imagine parting with a single character domain for free.

    DmMacniel ,

    He is twitter.

    jupiter_rowland ,

    @lechatron And I wonder if Musk has the balls to try and buy x.org.

    Albinoss ,

    That’s exactly it. I saw a lot of people on Twitter today saying they’re only staying the fallout. It’s dumb, and yes, I’m part of the problem, though I’m staying only to update some connections on where I’m going.

    Whirlybird ,

    Those same people have “only been staying for the fallout” since musk bought it, still tweeting away dozens of times a day. They’re the same people that said they’d leave Reddit on July 1 yet are still there.

    Albinoss ,

    Completely agree. I think people are so engrained that they just don’t want to try something else.

    Draegur ,

    are there any frontend webapps like wefwef/voyager?

    Justly0250 ,
    @Justly0250@lemdro.id avatar

    I think this one is. elk.zone

    Crass_Spektakel ,
    @Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t want to rain on your parade but I’ll do it anyway: The numbers of active posts and members in Lemmy communities, even in the most active ones, are mindbogglingly low in comparison with Reddit, even in comparison to somethingawful what I still consider the dirty cousin of Reddit.

    All the numbers are just two sizes lower than Reddit and then there is the atrocious web interface. I have stopped counting how often my posts got eaten, the reply button didn’t react and general stuff didn’t work at all.

    adonis OP ,
    @adonis@kbin.social avatar

    we willget there eventually.
    you can't compare a product that is decades old wuth something that's fairly new.

    woshang ,

    I guess the whole Threads battle making Elon realize he needs to be the data master, and X born earlier than I expected

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