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NickwithaC to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish • 25 days ago

Meta? Facebook! X? Twitter! Alphabet? Google!

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Meta? Facebook! X? Twitter! Alphabet? Google!

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NickwithaC to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish • 25 days ago
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  • @Addv4@lemmy.world
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    28•25 days ago

    Gotta hate Time-Warner.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      3•24 days ago

      AOL-Time-Warner.

  • @Gowron_Howard@lemm.ee
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    24•25 days ago

    Obligatory fuck Twitter

  • AJMaxwell
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    23•25 days ago

    Chiquita Brands International? Nah United Fruit Company? Bingo

  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    A lot of these aren’t technically dead-names. They’re parent corporations that exist to shuffle around profits and minimize tax and regulatory liabilities. Facebook and Google both continue to exist as properties owned by Meta and Alphabet.

    • @throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      deleted by creator

  • FundMECFS
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    19•24 days ago

    Deadnaming regions (using their indigenous names instead of colonial names)

    • @throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      deleted by creator

  • @Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15•25 days ago

    The only difference being Meta and Alphabet are the names of parent companies that Facebook and Google created to own themselves

    • Cid Vicious
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      15•24 days ago

      The Meta rebrand was definitely about escaping baggage associated with the name Facebook. Alphabet you’re right about though.

      • @ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
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        3•24 days ago

        They also wanted to own VR and rebrand it as meta. I don’t think that moved worked out for them.

  • Hildegarde
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    14•25 days ago

    I’ll call it x once he sells the domain. Sell it you coward.

    • user_name
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      11•25 days ago

      He did sell it…to himself. His AI company bought it.

  • @sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Is calling it Twitter is deadnaming?

    Maybe we should tell this pervert of Mr Musk we call it Twitter as long he is referring to his daughter by her penis.

  • @pezhore@infosec.pub
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    11•24 days ago

    It will always, always be Monsanto.

    • @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2•24 days ago

      Did they change it?

      • @wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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        2•24 days ago

        Bought by Bayer and quietly dropped

  • @BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    11•24 days ago

    Corporations are living like it’s 1930.

    Just change your name and the past goes away.

  • @Jourei@lemm.ee
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    10•24 days ago

    I think we should call it x. Twitter was this pioneering microblogging site. X is an extremist echo chamber that was created in 2023.

    • @Klear@lemmy.world
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      12•24 days ago

      Funny thing is Twitter was cesspool even before Musk got his hands on it. I was actually impressed he managed to make it significantly worse.

      • katy ✨
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        4•24 days ago

        twitter 2012-2015 was peak. ironically youtube 2012-2015 was peak.

        basically dan and phil, grace, hannah, mamrie, and tyler oakley are the reason for the success of youtube and twitter not good and twitter.

      • @Jourei@lemm.ee
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        1•24 days ago

        It sure was, I’m willing to let that fact get buried so the contrast appears sharper, let time gild twitter.

    • Ziglin (it/they)
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      10•24 days ago

      That’s why people call xitter which is comfortably close to shitter.

      • @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4•24 days ago

        Something about xitter also has this sophomoric zit acne feel. And the name is weird, too.

  • @BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
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    10•24 days ago

    Companies didn’t rename themselves. Rich CEOs renamed them against their will.

    • @Hupf@feddit.org
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      3•23 days ago

      CEO: I am the Senate

    • @throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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  • @purplemoosen@lemm.ee
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    7•24 days ago

    Xfinity? Comcast!

    • @Cort@lemmy.world
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      2•24 days ago

      At&t? Ma’ Bell!

      • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        That one has quite a few more steps, AT&T had to re-acquire Southern Bell>Bellsouth, Southwestern Bell, MCI, and a bunch of other subordinate companies to resurrect the reality of Ma’Bell

        • @Cort@lemmy.world
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          Yep, iirc Cingular was the last nail to be removed from the coffin, and that happened over a decade ago.

  • @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6•25 days ago

    does this mean you still call the bottle of high fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring aunt jemima

    • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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      3•24 days ago

      You can’t take her from me, growing up she was the only person who every looked at me with kindness

  • @Maroon@lemmy.world
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    deleted by creator

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