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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 166 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why is this the first time I'm hearing X-it? That's pretty good.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You probably haven't heard "X-it" because everyone still calls it Twitter.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still call it Twitter because it pisses Musk off. Not that he is on Lemmy, but principal of the matter.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I call it X to piss off X users so they quit. Musk doesn't read my posts.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Source on it pissing him off?

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, that to me sounds like he's trolling to drive engagement. At least that is the result he got.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter is dead and X never even existed.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Because a marketing writer just came up with it.

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Didn't you hear about the X-odus to Bluesky?

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 138 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Daily reminder that the X in Xitter is pronounced 'Shi' like in Chinese

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It took me 3 tries to realize she wasn't saying "We took a moment to locate our nearest shit."

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, you never really think about where the nearest shit is to you

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

I did as I flew back from Malaysia with a really bad food poisoning. I had to re schedule my flight and whole booking the new seat I made sure it was in sprint reach of the nearest shit...er.

That was a fun trip

[–] techwithjake@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

But i do think about where the nearest xitter (shitter) is.

[–] WagnasT@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was inside you all along.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

music swells

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's a mastodon client by the name of shitter

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I should try it out… it's not Moshidon, but it has a perfect name!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

I hope this leads to many other companies using their abandonment of Xitter as a way to dunk on them in a viral way.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

When will the Musk-child sue them?

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we start saying shxitter now?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xitter is pronounced "shitter"

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

When you're too fascist for the Austrians...

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago
[–] penfore@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Are they on another platform like BlueSky or Mastodon?

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

press X to quit.

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I love how both pronunciations work here. Exit or shit.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Uh oh, someone is going to get sued!

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rambling about selfhosting

I saw someone suggesting that organizations should host instances, then I'm now thinking, that's the most smart shit ever!

  1. You can control your data
  2. Own rules so you don't get banned over random shit
  3. Third pro

of course there would be some work to host and mantain it, but it would surely be hella nice to have goverments and etc doing this stuff

I would love for that to take off, that's what I've been wanting into too. Problem is they have to handle moderation, but I think there are solutions to it

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Austrian Airlines took THE flight!

[–] monke@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago

Highly based

[–] spechter@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude, you've failed your reading comprehension.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My favourite urban legend is that there’s a special desk at the Vienna airport for people who accidentally flew to Austria instead of Australia.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not quite as fun but my mum works for postal services in Austria and there's a special stamp for mail accidentally sent to Austria instead of Australia

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The volume of missent mail has certainly gone down in recent years due to both communication moving online and international post adopting more precise adress systems, but 10-15 years ago you could get parcels with multiple "missent to Austria - missent to Australia" stamps on them due to some incompetent people not realizing where it should actually go.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 year ago

Talking about incompetence...

My wife ordered something from Sweden years ago and apparently there's a city in the US with the same name as ours, so it was sent there. Then to Jamaica, because... Who knows. Then to Germany, where customs wanted to have taxes collected, because it came from the Americas. We told them to send it back to Sweden. Four years later, DHL wrote a letter asking for money for the effort handing it over to customs.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same the other way around. And for the Koreas

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I've had 'missent to Australia; try Austria' hand written on a parcel, so I didn't know that!

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I went to Vienna for a conference for work in 2016. When I got back, I turned in my receipts, and the admin assistant helpfully typed up my reimbursement paperwork, carefully converting to USD from Australian dollars.

It was at that moment that I was glad I'd made my own flight and hotel reservations.

[–] King3d@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!

[–] Sawy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)