Funnily enough, of all the things that Musk has done with Twitter, this is the one which I realised genuinely bugs me. I hate the X logo and hate seeing the X icon on my phone. I realised I actually genuinely liked the cute little bird. I know it’s not worth getting invested in, after all Twitter has always just been a for profit corporation. But for me this just exemplifies the problems with capitalism. Twitter doesn’t belong to Musk rightly, it belongs to all of its millions of users who generate content, culture, and media on it and for it every minute. And yet a billionaire megalomaniac can come and shit on it and within less than a year fucking ruin it. There’s no democracy in this. I’ve tried mastodon but I just can’t get into it as much as lemmygrad. It seems too boring and just full of tech nerds. Unless someone can recommend a good mastodon instance to join?
the “blaze your glory” slogan feels rather fascist to me too, which is fitting given who’s still left on the site
Jesus that’s the slogan?? That sounds extremely fascist.
it’s the app’s tagline in the apple app store
The “X” is there to remind you to close the tab ASAP. Always works for me, it’s very considerate of Musk.
If you are into math, mathstodon.
op complains about nerds
suggests maths
Math nerds != tech nerds
Pro tip: Use https://nitter.net if you want to browse Twitter without the intrusive stuff