Reclipse to Technology • 1 year agoBBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instancesocial.bbcexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up11.86Karrow-down113
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish71•1 year agoI may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•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-squareAlexisFRlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoWell you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoAll that does is give them cred in the rap community.
minus-squareWilkerlinkfedilinkEnglish3•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoAre we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year ago‘The site formerly known as twitter’ The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
minus-square@AusatKeyboardPremilinkEnglish7•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-squarenudny ekscentryklinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoI liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoI still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
minus-square@cyberpunk007linkEnglish2•1 year agoDoes that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
minus-squarezerozakulinkEnglish7•edit-21 year agoIt’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Br*tish, Fra*ce
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-21 year agoThat’s why censoring with 🤮 is better: Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•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.
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.
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: Br*tish, Fra*ce
You accidentally did a markdown there!
That’s why censoring with 🤮 is better:
Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
brish
Oops haha. Fixed it. Thanks.
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
It would be funny to censor X just with a single *