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X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum (www.engadget.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Mighty@lemmy.world 92 points 4 months ago (4 children)

you know what I always stan for? "former Twitter". I just love that shit! I hope it always stays like this to show that the rebranding didn'T work

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:

Instead of "X (formally know as Twitter)", the time has come for "Twitter (currently called X)".

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't even acknowledge the current name of the site, just keep calling it Twitter.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Trending on Occupied Twitter"

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It's just a special capitalist operation!

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

just call it twitter. literally everyone knows what it is, and twitter.com still redirects there so who gives a shit what he's calling it. don't show his site the courtesy he doesn't show to his own daughter.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago

He literally still called the posts tweets so....

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm just sad we aren't at calling it "formerly facebook" instead of meta

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.

I don't quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that's more subtle.

X can fuck the duck right off.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Poor duck.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, same as Alphabet. Neither of these renamed their key product either. Just put a new company on top.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I still call it Facebook. Meta is equally stupid as X. Meta as a word already existed in multiple different ways. Now if you say 'that's meta' you have to stop and think, which may be why I've seen that phrase really die out.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The meta rebranding is not as evil as the hostile takeover of Twitter. So I am inclined to accept that name change but I do not know really what using meta means.

I don't use FB, if I did I would still say FB. I use WhatsApp and I don't call that meta. I guess the individual products just keep their names here.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There is also the difference that Facebook the service is still called Facebook. Only the company name changed, but not the product name. Where for Twitter, he renamed both the product and the company.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I just don't call it anything. I avoid anything related to Facebook or Meta.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

X is simply too vague.