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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Can we make a global Lemmy compact to stop calling it Xitter and instead call it Shitter?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

They're the same word.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I can't ignore the irony.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The X is pronounced Shi in Mandarin

So it is basically the same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I still call it Twitter. I refuse to call it anything with the letter X in it. That includes "X (formerly known as Twitter)".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

At this point I call it XXX