X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 27 points 11 months ago

STOP CALLING IT X. JUST CALL IT TWITTER.COM

[-] eleanor@social.hamington.net 20 points 11 months ago

fr! I'll start calling it "X" when he calls his daughter Vivian

[+] Efwis@lemmy.zip -15 points 11 months ago

You do realize that X is now it’s official name right? Elon changed the name to X and deprecated the twitter name. At the end of the domain registration, he is not going to re-register twitter.com as the domain name, and because he owns the trademark on it, he is going to sue anyone who tries to re-use the domain name.

[-] candle_lighter@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago

Don't care. I'm still going to dead name the bird site.

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

I dropped it when trump was spewing his bs on it. My feed was 90% Trump bs and re-posts. I actively dumped fb, twitter and a few others back in 2019 and My life has been so much better since then.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That's 100% on you, nobody made you follow those accounts. My TL had 0 trump shit because I don't follow people who tweeted politics.

My job made constant exposure to the news unavoidable so Twitter was where I went to avoid it. So many funny people making original jokes. I made a lot of new friends through it that I still see today

I stand by that Twitter was a great platform if you thought about how you used it

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

I genuinely could not care less.

I’m going to keep deadnaming his company for as long as Elon keeps deadnaming his daughter.

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Nothing wrong with that. When I see a re-post from X/twitter, or whatever he wants to name it in the future, I happily scroll right by it.

I say let him go bankrupt trying to save it.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I hope he realizes that's not how it works. Companies own domains they don't use for this exact reason. Hell, most major companies own hundreds of misspelled versions of their domains across many TLDs for user safety.

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Like he cares. He bought it for money and political reasons. And now, because of piss poor decisions, the company has been devalued from $44 billion it is now only worth about $4 billion. What makes it so sad is a lot of online companies are following suit thinking they can do what he couldn’t.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

He bought it because he made a joke that then became legally binding.

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Just requires whoever picks it up be in a country that doesn't respect US IP law.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Hopefully that means we cab finally stop giving that shit website any attention.

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Well he is helping it along with the latest talking point that he is going to make X a subscription only platform, aka you must pay to play.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 16 points 11 months ago

Remove 'Circles' from the title anf it vecomes far more interesting

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, no. This is how we get misleading clickbait titles.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

I didn't know such feature even existed

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

Circles? Like from Google+?

[-] eleanor@social.hamington.net 8 points 11 months ago

Circles, the thing I hit accidentally when blocking a corporate account

[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

Given Elon is a transphobic POS, I'll gladly remain deadnaming his shitty website

[-] LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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