Reclipse@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.world · 1 year agoBBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instancesocial.bbcexternal-linkmessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
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minus-squaremoosetwin@FMHY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agomy guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter
minus-squarexxcarpaii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoMaybe they were talking about twatter
minus-squareSerpardum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAre we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
minus-squarenudny ekscentryk@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
minus-squareOtakuAltair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago‘The site formerly known as twitter’ The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
minus-squareAusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year ago“TSFKAT”. Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”. I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.
minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoDoes that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThe childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.
minus-squareAlexisFR@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWell you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
minus-squareSwarfega@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.
minus-squareFlat Pluto Society@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoApple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAll that does is give them cred in the rap community.
minus-squareWilker@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoto be fair, the word Mastodon was being censored on Twitter at one point, but doesn’t mean the other way happens in the Fediverse.
minus-squarezerozaku@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
minus-squareunagi@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYou accidentally did a markdown there!
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoThat’s why censoring with 🤮 is better: Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
minus-squareLakesLem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just “birdsite” or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I’m posting on.
my guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter
Maybe they were talking about twatter
Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
I liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
‘The site formerly known as twitter’
The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
“TSFKAT”.
Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”.
I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.
Does that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
They don’t know who we be
The childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.
Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
Aye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.
Apple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?
All that does is give them cred in the rap community.
to be fair, the word Mastodon was being censored on Twitter at one point, but doesn’t mean the other way happens in the Fediverse.
It’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
You accidentally did a markdown there!
That’s why censoring with 🤮 is better:
Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
brish
It’s spelled twatter
I literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just “birdsite” or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I’m posting on.