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As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“You should tweet that” becomes “you should X that”

"You should X-create" that

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And a tweet becomes an "X-cretion"

[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 70 points 1 year ago
[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

And retweet it become X-Forwarded-For it

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s just a new form of messaging called X-communication.

oh wait.

[–] mauns@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's inspired by all the X-Twitter employees

[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

We're witnessing an X-tinction event in real time.

[–] Voli@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ain’t X-ing a term for cutting something out of your life ?

[–] sheilzy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yes, and I was thinking how confusing it could be. A: "Hey, did you see that trend on X?" B: "What? No, I don't talk to my ex anymore."