1y ago

I prefer Wayland (.social) though

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.

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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!
  
  It totally worked for Xfinity
  
  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
- Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.
  
  Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.
- Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.
- musk likes X better

As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?
I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...
- I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.
- 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?

The bottom one is just U+1D54F.
https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F

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?

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".
  
  I kinda wonder what makes it "mathematical"