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BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance(social.bbc)

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LakesLem@lemm.ee
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I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign

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moosetwin@FMHY@lemmy.world
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my guy you don’t have to censor the word twitter

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NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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The childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.

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AlexisFR@jlai.lu
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Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?

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Swarfega@lemm.ee
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Aye. Like nerds using M$ for Microsoft.

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Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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.

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xxcarpaii@lemmy.world
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Maybe they were talking about twatter

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Serpardum@lemm.ee
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Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.

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OtakuAltair@lemm.ee
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‘The site formerly known as twitter’

The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo

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nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
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I liked someone’s suggestion to pronounce it as “ten”

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1984@lemmy.today
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I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)

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cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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Does that mean DMX is now running the show over there?

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zerozaku@lemmy.world
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It’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace

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unagi@feddit.nl
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You accidentally did a markdown there!

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xavier666@lemm.ee
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Musk himself is censoring Twitter

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LakesLem@lemm.ee
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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.

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shroomato@lemmy.world
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It’s spelled twatter

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17451k@lemmy.world
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It would be funny to censor X just with a single *

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