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or maybe eX-twitter

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago

How about we ghost it until it becomes irrelevant instead.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need to be sour about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

no need to yell about it

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He deadnames his own child, and yet gets butthurt when the internet deadnames his company. I feel like just “Twitter” is the biggest insult we could collectively give to him as a person, in this context.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Exactly. This. Twitter. That's it. Melon Husk doesn't get a say, he ought to be ignored completely by everyone.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Call it nothing and let it die

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been calling it Xitter. The X is pronounced "sh."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the sass, but do people know what you’re talking about in spoken conversation?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You think the people posting snarky shit on the internet are engaging in spoken conversation with other humans? I promise we're not.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I feel like it'll piss off the shitbag more if no one calls it X, so, that's what I'm going with

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Why don’t we just stop talking about it altogether.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Could just stop talking about it all together.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Xitter. Kinda like shitter if you pretend it's like a Chinese x sound

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

brb posting a Xeet real quick.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just keep referring it to as Twitter if I ever need to talk about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Corporations don’t get to have deadnames

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooor how bout we just fucking stop talking about and using Twitter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

[I don't think about you at all meme]

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Play it cool. Nobody's going to know you're a time traveling Roman

"Hey guys, did you see what's trending on 10?"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Just call it Twitter since Elon doesn't believe in calling people by their names

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It’s twitter and always will be twitter until dick bag fully runs it into the ground.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

...or - hear me out here - we all just stop using that asswipe's platform?!?

Crazy, I know!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I prefer Xitter, but to make it more apparent what the pronunciation is I spell it out more phonetically as "shitter".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I just don’t talk about the name change, pretty similar to how I’ve barely given twitter notice for the past decade

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, I just still call it Twitter. Probably will until the end of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which hopefully comes soon

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Who wouldn't know what you were talking about if you just called it Twitter?

Don't cater to the whims of billionaires. Not even a little.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The ~~artist formerly known as Prince~~ platform formerly known as Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm cool with just never calling it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think twitter is fine. Plus it might drive the rat king out of his marbles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Xitter (shitter) and nothing else.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Keep calling it Twitter but add @Deprecated so future users know to avoid it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Playing into it and calling it X does actually reduce the effectiveness of twitter's branding. Just call it X, let people be confused, and let that kill the fun so they will just move on already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it still is Twitter. That's the URL that people use to access the site. Tbh I have no idea if Musk actually went through the effort of changing the company name in the business licensing or other company paperwork. Just the logo and header seem to say X. But I agree, I'm getting so annoyed with journalists calling it "the site formerly known as Twitter." so dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are probably doing it for SEO.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

𝕏 sounds stupid so I say it, its old brand was something it currently does not deserve

imagine being an 𝕏 user 𝕏ing on their 𝕏 and re𝕏ing other people's 𝕏es

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Anything is fine as long as we call tweets xcrements

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m still sticking with calling it “Y”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Y" is already taken, by something called an "existential crisis"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're so keen on renaming twitter then maybe don't make fun of Elon wanting to do the same.

It's twitter. Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

or just leave that shit hole platform and stop talking about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Just call it X. If nobody understands what you are talking about, consider it a positive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Too lazy to do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or twitter, for short

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