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I prefer Wayland (.social) though (media.kbin.social)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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[-] [email protected] 95 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hey gang I just designed a logo for my new social media company, let me know your thoughts:

𝕄

(trademark pending pls don't steal)

[-] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

i pro𝕄ise i won't

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Is is pronounced eye-vee-eye, or pipe-slash-(slash-?)slash-pipe(-pipe?)?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

It's actually completely unpronounceable.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

H t t p colon backslash backslash Slash dot dot org

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Is the use of back-slash instead of forward-slash an attempt to confuse any potential users?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nope just been a long time since I've written out the hypertext protocol lol, I guess my memory is failing in my old age.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Does anybody under 30 even know about the http:// part of urls?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Pipe-slash Slash-pipe is an acceptable band name.

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[-] JackRiddle 49 points 11 months ago

Twitter is doing what? Why? ???

[-] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago

Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!

[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

It totally worked for Xfinity

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Charter did the same and rebranded to Spectrum.

[-] JackRiddle 7 points 11 months ago

This I understand, but why in the name of the gods both old and new to X?? Why just one letter? ~Does his brain not work?~

Nvm figured it out

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Its rage bait and everyone is still promoting it

[-] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

Not why. X.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

Musk really likes the letter X, and his previous x.com venture from 1999 went belly up

So, he’s rebranding his new toy to his favorite letter

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I thought x.com became paypal

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

PayPal didn't have enough cash to expand as quickly as they wanted to though, so they merged with x.com to get ahold of that blood emerald money.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?

I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

it give good memories, it wasn't perfect but was there for us, nostalgic

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I have a lot of memories of debugging xf86config, browsing forums & docs in lynx in another term, frantically trying to get a GUI so I could finish an assignment or whatever...

I guess those are good memories?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

yeah
that black and white dotty screen where the mouse is a black X.
. . . after the 25th edit.
what a time to be alive.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Looking up modeline's for your monitor...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Good because they're in the past and we don't have to do this anymore...

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

The bottom one is just U+1D54F.

https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Bro really trying to trademark a character.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

whats wild is its already trademarked by Microsoft for numerous use cases and by Meta for this specific use case. I just don't know how you don't check on that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

How could microsoft trademark a letter?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

apparently easily.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.

Don't believe me? I can just type 𝕏 out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X

[-] Shit 7 points 11 months ago

Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬

[-] SneakyThunder 5 points 11 months ago

X.org propaganda!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Will X be using TWM from now on?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Neither of them sparks joy

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

both don't spark joy.
x11 is a mess.

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