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I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. (lemmy.ca)
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[โ€“] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ummm โ€ฆ how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. ๐Ÿคฏ

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it's text.

There are more kind of letters then just our latin alphabet. Cyrillic, aboriginal Canadian and even Chinese and Japanese can be typed by just text for instance ๏ผˆๆ—ฅๆœฌ่ชžใฎไพ‹ใˆ๏ผ‰

In the same vein, mathematical and other scientific symbols can be typed using just text, and ๐• is the symbol that stands in place for arbitrary distance in a formula.

Basically, it's just a (mathematical) letter, it can be typed.
That's also why their new CEO had difficulties copyrighting it; it's just a letter, after all!

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As a sidenote, looking up what the mathematical symbol actually means gave me this gem

๐• redirects here, for the social media, see Twitter

Even the Wikipedia community refuses to acknowledge this!

[โ€“] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

see the talk page of twitter

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago

There is no concencus, slightly more people oppose to rename the page, but only sightly.

I hope they keep it up, to avoid confusion, and to spite their current, dickhead CEO

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Itโ€™s a distinct ascii character

[โ€“] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

not in ascii!!! in unicode!!!