Reclipse@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.world · 2 years agoBBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instancesocial.bbcexternal-linkmessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up11.85Karrow-down114
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minus-squareLakesLem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72arrow-down2·2 years agoI may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
minus-squaremoosetwin@FMHY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·2 years agomy guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 years agoThe childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.
minus-squareAlexisFR@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years agoWell you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?
minus-squareSwarfega@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·2 years agoAye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.
minus-squareFlat Pluto Society@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 years agoApple? More like Crapple, am I right, fellas?
minus-squareNuPNuA@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoAll that does is give them cred in the rap community.
minus-squareWilker@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years 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-squarexxcarpaii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-22 years agoMaybe they were talking about twatter
minus-squareSerpardum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoAre we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.
minus-squareOtakuAltair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years ago‘The site formerly known as twitter’ The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
minus-squareAusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 years ago“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 years agoI liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”
minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoI still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)
minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoDoes that mean DMX is now running the show over there?
minus-squarezerozaku@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoIt’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
minus-squareunagi@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoYou accidentally did a markdown there!
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 years agoThat’s why censoring with 🤮 is better: Br🤮tish, Fr🤮nch
minus-squareLakesLem@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 years 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.
minus-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoMusk himself is censoring Twitter
minus-square17451k@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 years agoIt 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.
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
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.
Musk himself is censoring Twitter
It’s spelled twatter
It would be funny to censor X just with a single *