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HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It literally isn’t Twitter anymore. Twitter and X are very different things. We shouldn’t even be pretending that they’re related.

OopsAllTwix ,

Shitter. That’s what I’ll always call it.

mechoman444 ,

Asking out of genuine curiosity how would one go about moderating or restricting deadnaming on Twitter from an applicable technical perspective?

rekorse ,

Might not be popular but you dont want to restrict that type of stuff in tech, because people very quickly and easily find ways around it, usually by using new similar words that call back to the prohibited ones.

This is an area where moderation is key, and I think people might need to reconsider who they allow to send them direct messages. Especially I expect there to be a better way to vet someone who is trying to directly reach a stranger.

If you are literally going to open your door to the whole world some bad stuff will fall in, but you dont have to let them into your private areas just because they made it in the front door.

Trust networks are another idea, essentially verifying new people through acquaintances.

sandbox ,

The same way that we deal with every other thing that social media platforms restrict. You make it against the rules and then enforce them. If you’re feeling fancy you could program some heuristics to determine the likelihood of a message containing deadnames - for example, maintain a list of common targets, look for people tagging them or related hashtags in tweets containing their dead name, and use sentiment analysis, to determine whether those messages should be subject to moderator approval before appearing publicly.

dejected_warp_core ,

I agree with the other responses you have here.

I’ll add one observation: the more petty the censorship, the bigger the backlash. People in general loathe that kind of behavior, and internet geeks with a vivid collective memory of being bullied by people like this? Oh, you reap the whirlwind in such cases.

ILikeBoobies ,

I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website

FMEEE ,

He fired to much people to recode every single dependency.

Bahnd ,

I go with “The website formerly known as Twitter” mostly for the Prince bit…

Sabata11792 ,

I mean, that is what corpo media calls it, so it’s correct enough.

Agent641 ,

Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?

Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I prefer to call it “dead Larry”.

Neon ,

deadnames?

Like, something with AEX12? Pretty sure it doesn’t mean he has an actual dead child

gamermanh ,
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Using a trans person’s original name when they’ve chosen a new one

Neon ,

Thanks for actually answering and not just downvoting like some toxic fucks in here. It seems that not even Lemmy is immune from social media’s toxicity.

masterofn001 ,

Sometimes people just assume that when someone asks a question that seems obvious to them, the person asking the question HAS to be a troll/bad person.

Also, you’re missing a flag.

Neon ,

Also, you’re missing a flag.

Yeah I know. Problem is: I am a classical liberal in the original, European sense: I don’t care, do whatever makes you happy.

I have no idea which flag supports what. And even if I did: I have heard of “infighting”, so I am scared that my “I support every single one of you” flag gets taken over by some “but not that group” group and I wouldn’t notice and then have a hate-flag on it.

So, since I can’t guarantee I will take the right flag and update it accordingly, I just won’t.

rekorse ,

To be fair your question was phrased a bit confusingly. It was hard to tell if you were asking clarification or supporting Elon in some strange way.

watersnipje ,

He has a transgender daughter, whom he still calls by her old, male name. Calling a trans person by their old name that they no longer use, is called deadnaming.

Snowclone ,

Oh boy. No he has a male to female transgender child, who he intentionally calls by their given name at birth, Also he really switched over to being conservative and anti-trans after said child came out to him. Usually parents go the other way, but he went the extreme hate direction and has seemingly said his child is dead to him.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That’s pretty much what I’ve said about Twitter since he changed the name- I’ll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.

OhStopYellingAtMe ,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.

interdimensionalmeme ,

Don’t call it, this place is irrelevant, just don’t mention it anymore, only idiots, normies and boomers are left

Tja ,

“Only the vast majority of the population are left” is a weird argument to make.

HawlSera ,

It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who’s “Real” name is James Bowman

Big_Boss_77 ,

Thought it was Couchfucker McGuy-liner?

pancakes ,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

The D in his name is for couch because that’s the only place he wants to put it

1rre ,

what like “Tommy Robinson, Whose Real Name Is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon”, where you have to use the full name at all times

VantaBrandon ,

Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as “X (formerly known as Twitter”), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing

funkless_eck ,

I prefer “Twitter (temporarily known as X)”

CaptnNMorgan ,

That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter

vithigar ,

That’s the joke.

ynthrepic ,
@ynthrepic@lemmy.world avatar

I fully expect him to sell it before long and the new buyer will change it straight back again.

funkless_eck ,

or it’ll close down

CaptnNMorgan ,

If it closed down, then it would close down as X

funkless_eck ,

so it would still be temporary, is the joke. It’s just a pune or play on words

CaptnNMorgan ,

It was also temporarily called Twitter though

orphiebaby ,

And we’d still call what it was “Twitter”.

suzune ,

Ex Twitter

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I love the Chaser.

JasonDJ ,

Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.

What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn’t a bad name. It wasn’t like…Phillip Morris or something.

radicalautonomy ,
@radicalautonomy@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

He’d probably do it because of his hatred for “aLphABeT PeOpLE!” like his own kid. That fucking prick. If he were on fire, I’d piss on him, but not at the base of the flames.

Zink ,

I think all he managed to do, other than torching a legendary amount of money, was to create a bunch of easy content for some lazy college students in marketing 101. The ones who don’t want to dig to find something more interesting and nuanced.

0x0 ,

I don’t think he has $1T, which is half the market cap

pyre ,

“wasn’t a bad name” is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that’s so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.

xerox didn’t want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.

but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that’s the perfect brand.

rekorse ,

Is this just a really bad business deal followed by absurdly poor leadership, but very visible?

Did Elon make it obvious he had a completely different vision for twitter when he talked about buying it?

pyre ,

no, but he was always chasing that “everything app”, some Chinese apps are like that and are probably insanely profitable so of course he wanted to do it himself for the US.

after he was forced to buy Twitter for a ridiculously high price reserved only for the most idiotic and/or insane of all people, he probably “thought” (a generous metaphor i use to describe the activity inside his cromagnon skull) that he might as well just do that with Twitter and hope it eventually makes enough money to make up for the worst high profile business decision in recent memory. that’s why he’s pushed for more functionalities like making Twitter a video platform, and doing meetups or whatever they’re called.

he wanted “x” to be a thing since before he was really known all that much by the public, and probably felt appropriate with the direction change for Twitter because he still “thought” it would be cool to have something called X because he lives in the past and has the sensibilities of a child who’s desperate to look cool.

so here we are, take the world’s best known brand name and replace it with a single letter that is widely used to mean unknown. fucking idiot.

rekorse ,

Not even unknown, in my area x almost always refers to porn. So yeah he destroyed the brand for a name that at worst offends a large group of people .

fox2263 ,

He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down

masterofn001 ,

He was let go at PayPal because he tried to make it x.

Hikermick ,

Musk-chan?

uis ,

Musk-tan

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