Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.
Twitter is doing what? Why? ???
Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!
This I understand, but why in the name of the gods both old and new to X?? Why just one letter? ~Does his brain not work?~
Nvm figured it out
Its rage bait and everyone is still promoting it
Not why. X.
Musk really likes the letter X, and his previous x.com venture from 1999 went belly up
So, he’s rebranding his new toy to his favorite letter
I thought x.com became paypal
It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition
PayPal didn't have enough cash to expand as quickly as they wanted to though, so they merged with x.com to get ahold of that blood emerald money.
Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.
Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.
Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?
Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.
As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?
I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...
it give good memories, it wasn't perfect but was there for us, nostalgic
I have a lot of memories of debugging xf86config, browsing forums & docs in lynx in another term, frantically trying to get a GUI so I could finish an assignment or whatever...
I guess those are good memories?
yeah
that black and white dotty screen where the mouse is a black X.
. . . after the 25th edit.
what a time to be alive.
Looking up modeline's for your monitor...
Good because they're in the past and we don't have to do this anymore...
I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.
Bro really trying to trademark a character.
whats wild is its already trademarked by Microsoft for numerous use cases and by Meta for this specific use case. I just don't know how you don't check on that.
How could microsoft trademark a letter?
apparently easily.
Ridiculous which companies own all of the alphabets?(i'm sure they do)
It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.
Don't believe me? I can just type 𝕏 out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.
And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".
This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.
Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X
Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬
Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?
X.org propaganda!
Will X be using TWM from now on?
Neither of them sparks joy
both don't spark joy.
x11 is a mess.
XXX?
I use Arch btw
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