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Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Twitter is doing what? Why? ???

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It totally worked for Xfinity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Charter did the same and rebranded to Spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This I understand, but why in the name of the gods both old and new to X?? Why just one letter? ~Does his brain not work?~

Nvm figured it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Its rage bait and everyone is still promoting it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Not why. X.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk really likes the letter X, and his previous x.com venture from 1999 went belly up

So, he’s rebranding his new toy to his favorite letter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought x.com became paypal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

PayPal didn't have enough cash to expand as quickly as they wanted to though, so they merged with x.com to get ahold of that blood emerald money.

[–] starman 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?

I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it give good memories, it wasn't perfect but was there for us, nostalgic

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a lot of memories of debugging xf86config, browsing forums & docs in lynx in another term, frantically trying to get a GUI so I could finish an assignment or whatever...

I guess those are good memories?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah
that black and white dotty screen where the mouse is a black X.
. . . after the 25th edit.
what a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Looking up modeline's for your monitor...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good because they're in the past and we don't have to do this anymore...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

The bottom one is just U+1D54F.

https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro really trying to trademark a character.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whats wild is its already trademarked by Microsoft for numerous use cases and by Meta for this specific use case. I just don't know how you don't check on that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could microsoft trademark a letter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.

Don't believe me? I can just type 𝕏 out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

X.org propaganda!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Will X be using TWM from now on?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Neither of them sparks joy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

both don't spark joy.
x11 is a mess.

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