Reclipse@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.world · 2 年前BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instancesocial.bbcexternal-linkmessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up11.85Karrow-down10cross-posted to: technews@radiation.party
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minus-squareLakesLem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·2 年前I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
minus-squaremoosetwin@FMHY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·2 年前my guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 年前The childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.
minus-squareFlat Pluto Society@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 年前Apple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 年前All that does is give them cred in the rap community.
minus-squareAlexisFR@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 年前Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
minus-squareWilker@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 年前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.
minus-squarexxcarpaii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-22 年前Maybe they were talking about twatter
minus-squareSerpardum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 年前Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
minus-squareOtakuAltair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 年前‘The site formerly known as twitter’ The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
minus-squareAusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 年前“TSFKAT”. Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”. I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.
minus-squarenudny ekscentryk@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 年前I liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
minus-square1984linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 年前I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前Does that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
minus-squareLakesLem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 年前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.
minus-squarezerozaku@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 年前It’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 年前That’s why censoring with 🤮 is better: Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
minus-square17451k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 年前It would be funny to censor X just with a single *
I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
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.
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.
Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
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
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 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
It’s spelled twatter
It would be funny to censor X just with a single *