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NickwithaC@lemmy.world to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 7 days ago

Meta? Facebook! X? Twitter! Alphabet? Google!

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NickwithaC@lemmy.world to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 7 days ago
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  • sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Is calling it Twitter is deadnaming?

    Maybe we should tell this pervert of Mr Musk we call it Twitter as long he is referring to his daughter by her penis.

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    Companies didn’t rename themselves. Rich CEOs renamed them against their will.

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      CEO: I am the Senate

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      If shareholders didn’t do anything to stop it, then this is their will.

      But given that it’s a stupid decision, I’ve elected to ignore it.

      (I’m not editing my brain-dictionary for something so stupid)

  • Jourei@lemm.ee
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    I think we should call it x. Twitter was this pioneering microblogging site. X is an extremist echo chamber that was created in 2023.

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      Funny thing is Twitter was cesspool even before Musk got his hands on it. I was actually impressed he managed to make it significantly worse.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        twitter 2012-2015 was peak. ironically youtube 2012-2015 was peak.

        basically dan and phil, grace, hannah, mamrie, and tyler oakley are the reason for the success of youtube and twitter not good and twitter.

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        It sure was, I’m willing to let that fact get buried so the contrast appears sharper, let time gild twitter.

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      That’s why people call xitter which is comfortably close to shitter.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Something about xitter also has this sophomoric zit acne feel. And the name is weird, too.

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    Meta? More like “Meta mis juevos en tu boca!”

    Edit: Directed towards zucc, of course.

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    Elsevier? Wiley-Blackwell! Springer? Pearson!

    Academic publishers are scum.

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    I thought this was about Blackwater, you know, the company that massacred unarmed civilians for shits and giggles

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    Republicans? Whigs!

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    Gotta hate Time-Warner.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      AOL-Time-Warner.

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    Obligatory fuck Twitter

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    A lot of these aren’t technically dead-names. They’re parent corporations that exist to shuffle around profits and minimize tax and regulatory liabilities. Facebook and Google both continue to exist as properties owned by Meta and Alphabet.

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      I think its mostly a PR thing

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    Chiquita Brands International? Nah United Fruit Company? Bingo

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    Deadnaming regions (using their indigenous names instead of colonial names)

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      Oh fuck, this is gonna be so challenging…

      Does this mean we use Transliterations instead of Translations for country names?

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    The only difference being Meta and Alphabet are the names of parent companies that Facebook and Google created to own themselves

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      The Meta rebrand was definitely about escaping baggage associated with the name Facebook. Alphabet you’re right about though.

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        They also wanted to own VR and rebrand it as meta. I don’t think that moved worked out for them.

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    I’ll call it x once he sells the domain. Sell it you coward.

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      He did sell it…to himself. His AI company bought it.

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    Corporations are living like it’s 1930.

    Just change your name and the past goes away.

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