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[–] netr0m@infosec.pub 351 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"What about X and a space, either before or after?" software developer Yusuf Alp suggested a potential workaround in response to Berlin's post.

"He already has a company called SpaceX," chuckled Berlin.

Gold.

[–] fearout@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

This is amazing :)

[–] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trailing and leading spaces are almost always trimmed in such cases, but that is indeed very funny.

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[–] devil_d0c@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That took me way too long to get lol

[–] curryandbeans@lemmy.world 175 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is your hourly reminder that being born into a family that owns an emerald mine doesn't automatically make you a fucking genius

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what's sadder, that he tried to say that the Emerald Mine was a myth or that my Libertarian friends bought that shit.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Your friends being duped is much sadder. Its understandable why he would lie about that. It exposes him as a silver spoon munching brat that what born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple.

Your friends not being skeptical enough to see through the bullshit is sad. Anyone being a fanboy of one of these clowns is sad.

Semi related: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/561/804/c1f.png

[–] Tots@lemmy.world 154 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm sure this won't end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn't planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.

[–] Puppy@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's fait to just call it Twitter and not "x" or "twitter/x" or "x social" or "Twitter but actually x"

X will never stick 😅

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

[–] Cmot_Dibbler@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I'm not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn't let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn't be even tangentially compared to Prince.

I much prefer to call it "10"

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Call it "no", or maybe "close button".

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[–] Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

eX-Twitter.

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[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.

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[–] Dankry@lemmy.world 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol awesome. Fuck Elon Musk.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

no thanks. I don't fuck manbabies.

[–] Spendies@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems obvious. They should just add 2 more X's.

[–] Molzor@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would prefer if they add one x on either side.

[–] Drusenija@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xXx - Sponsored by Vin Diesel?

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

It's more fitting than most people might realize with how their "For You" section now shows you full nudity every 5th posts.

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Pretty easy solution. Just show it in the App Store as “X - A Social Media App” or some shit

[–] Alto@kbin.social 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"The App Formerly Know as Twitter"

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

The Prince solution, I like it.

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apple discourages adding subtitle as part of the app name and I don't recall ever seeing one, so they might even disallow it.

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[–] Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's quite something how Twitter has been constantly tinkered with since musk took over, and instead of making any tangible improvements, it's actually just created more mess.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Inb4 he throws an ego-driven temper tantrum because they won’t make an exception to a rule that has existed since the dawn of the app store specifically for his special ass.

[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

“Did you know Steve Jobs was a pedo?” “Oh shut up, Elon.”

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[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good old minimum character validation

[–] gkd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I admittedly didn’t read the article. Is that the reason or does someone already have an app called X? Either way they can just call it like “X - Formerly known as Twitter” but he’s probably too childish to do that.

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[–] Louisoix@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. I'm all for (even the smallest) confrontations between shitty billionaires and/or shitty corporations.

[–] LegionEris@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Right? Shit politicians too. Ron DeSantis got me rootin' for fucking Disney. I hate Disney in general, but I wish they'd play more serious Illuminati hardball with DeSantis.

[–] pizzazz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X FOR iOS is probably better. But being an app developer and dealing with apple bullshit so many times I'm frothing over how delicious this snack is.

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[–] Camzing@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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That news is actually funny 😁

[–] Steev@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

They should try 𝕏

[–] cloaker@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

X, by X Corp? Fuck Elon btw

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can they just do “-X-“? Just as stupid, but whatever.

[–] itsnotlupus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I vote for xX-[X]-Xx

Alas, this being the darkest timeline, we'll probably end up with X Social.

[–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

If emojies we're allowed we very well know Musk would go for it. 💩X💩

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