After Twitter rebranding to X, Mastodon has announced they’re rebranding to Wayland.
@nektworks
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@nektworks now we just need bluesky to rebrand to mir
@[email protected] @nektworks a few years from now: "we've decided we will be moving the bluesky website to a modified version of mastodon, and the bluesky software will be repurposed as a helper library for writing activitypub servers"
@f00fc7c8 @nektworks damn it - i thought I had a good reply but you got there first!
@nektworks Now I get to listen to people say that Wayland isn't ready for even longer!
@nektworks In that case, it's too bad Calckey went with "Firefish" instead of "Yutani".
@SynAck @nektworks I’m glad someone said it. Yutani was the first thing that popped in my head upon reading this. Damn The Company! Lol
@nektworks The fediverse's ties to Western Massachusetts are well-documented.
@gaditb @nektworks honestly they could stand to be documented more
@nektworks thing of beauty, really
@nektworks Too obscure, but worth a quiet dry laugh.
@nektworks I'm going to create some more accounts so I can like this more
@nektworks i was voting for Unity, because we need another one of those.
@nektworks if you find this funny you are too nerdy to have an opinion on what “the average user” expects from a social media experience 😶
@nektworks I don’t want to know how much this domain costs
@alarig @nektworks Elon already had the domain, it's was used in early Paypal era.
@nektworks can't wait for X to take over my results when i have an issue with Xorg.
@nektworks A little bit buggy but overall a safer experience with more potential for expansion? Yeah that tracks.
@nektworks now its time to make a Mastodon, Calckey/firefish, Akkoma, etc. Fork and call it Twitter. Their loss
@nektworks I would find this funny, except that it is Wayland that aims to replace a very successful system while breaking important functionality and protocol compatibility for some unclear cooperate agenda.
@nektworks NO! I don't want to migrate to twitter!!!
@nektworks idk if this is a joke or if you are serious?
@nektworks thank you for a laugh on this quite difficult Monday, and I don't even care about X.
@nektworks Will Xorg rebrand to Birdorg?

@nektworks Nah, Mastodon is NeWS or maybe Plan 9/8½. Wayland would be more centralized than Twitter, not less so. Maybe something that only has a mobile app.

Also: I can't find any online references to the OpenGL-based networked window system called, I think, Fiasco.

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@nektworks Pleroma will be rebranding to Yutani in response
@nektworks wait this is real (the twitter, ahem, X part)
@nektworks new url is wayland.social now
@nektworks ok, this is by far the best take i have ever seen on the fediverse. 🧏‍♂️️ chef's kiss.

@nektworks Finally, after 12 years, Wayland is stable and ready for the desktop.

And all it took was a billionaire moron with an X to grind.

@nektworks This toot kicked me in the head so hard. I can't believe how many times I googled Wayland news back in the day.