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You know how you always mention that brock turner the rapist is a rapist because brock turner is a rapist who doesn't want people to know that he, brock turner, is a rapist?
Same with elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, who was forced to buy twitter after over committing. Since the purchase elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, then proceeded to continually publicly fail for SOO LONG as he tried to unsuccessfully rebrand Twitter, the now failing site that elon musk owns, to x.
BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols..
Are any of you fine lemmings currently in business school or studying marketing?
I wonder if this whole branding debacle is already actively studied and discussed in academia.
I don't know if there's much to study about this... make a product shittier and then rebrand to remove any positive brand association with the product when it was better in the past. Yeah, that's a bad idea.
It's insane. It's like bandaid changing their name. Everyone calls adhesive bandages bandaids. Everyone calls micro blogging tweets. (In this niche community of fediverse users maybe not.)
Yeah true, but nothing drives the point home like a huge embarrassing real world example!
Start, using, Mastodon.
-he said on Lemmy Edit: *She
She, cmon I have Queen in the name
Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.
I think they meant "you're preaching to the choir."
Ooooh
In 1981 IBM tried renaming the computer motherboard the 'planar board'. Nobody would call it the planar board though.
I'm still going to call it Twitter.
X sounds like a porn site of some kind. Fun fact, the government in India thought the same thing and banned it for that reason...for awhile.
Apparently it's not a well known story, so I'll remind everyone that India's government banned many different porn sites within their own country's internet access.
I don't know if it's at the DNS level or the actual IP address or what, but they banned almost every free porn site I've ever heard of, even more obscure ones like Jizzhut and alphaporno, even really really low budget ones that are just an index for a bunch of embedded videos from other sites
X sounds like a porn site of some kind
Ha, just like people gave you side-eye for mentioning 'hotmail' back in the 90s. "Hotmail, eh? Why do you need a raunchy e-mail address?"
I do agree that X is a stupid name.
I do agree that X is a stupid name.
It's a great name for a porn site
see? I told you
I don't even know which porn sites those are
I don't know dude, some of those sites are unbanned.
Besides, you can get around the ban by using cloudflare warp
or a VPN like proton or mullvad
those cost money, cloudflare warp is free and it doesn't really matter just for porn
Cloudflare is almost as bad as google. You shouldn't use it.
Does it really matter?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/privacy/
Regardless of whether you believe in their privacy policy or not, you'd only be using it to browse porn in this situation. it's not that bad.
