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Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public::undefined

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[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like that’s a conversation you should have had with your parents by now.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

"When a failing social media platform and a billionaire narcissist love each other very much..."

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We’re going to send X to a farm upstate.

[–] DunkinCoder@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The one who's gonna give it to ya.

[–] blunderworld@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

But do they deliver to ya?

[–] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Really soft core porn. You need to get into the triple Xs to get to the good stuff.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

I'm glad we can rely on @Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world for solid words of advice on this subject.

X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's weird that this post called it by the short name. The full name, as you typically see in articles, is "X (formerly Twitter)".

It's kinda like "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". A few places tried to call him "The Artist", but no one ever knew what that meant.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"The formerly successful website known as Twitter"

[–] WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

A letter in the alphabet.