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my guy you don't have to censor the word twitter
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.
Maybe they were talking about twatter
Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
'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.
I liked someone's suggestion to pronounce it as "ten"
I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
Does that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
They don't know who we be
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
Musk himself is censoring Twitter
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.
It's spelled twatter