Yossi
sjvnDear copy editors, if Meta and X are Facebook and Twitter to the Supreme Court, that's good enough for me, and it should be good enough for you.
JP@sjvn "Also", the judge continued, "X and Meta are just objectively sillier names, it feels undignified to use them"
@sjvn (don't get me wrong "twitter" and "facebook" are silly too, but cmon)
FediThing 
Also, why are so many tech companies adopting names that are impossible to search for because they are so generic?
Google -> Alphabet
Facebook -> Meta & Threads
Twitter -> X
Are they trying to deliberately obfuscate something?
Wendy M. Grossman@FediThing @sjvn Blame Miccrosoft. It kicked this whole thing off nwhen it named a computer language C#.
enoch_exe_inc@wendyg @FediThing @sjvn What else were they going to name it? C is called C because previous two programming languages were A and B.
Bee O'Problem 
@wendyg @FediThing @sjvn I'd blame Clear Channel (aka iHeartRadio) for it first. They rebranded to try and bury their well deserved reputation as monopolists that ruined local terrestrial radio.
Much like how Facebook is trying to hide behind the "meta" name
Marty Fouts
pgcd@FediThing @sjvn I'm pretty sure that their marketing might is (or will be) enough to make it hard to search for the actual alphabet soon.
(see also the NavBoost leaks from Google. TL;DR a human handpicks what results are actually "important")
Paul Lalonde
Jennifer@sjvn I refuse to call Twitter X. What a dumb name.
jake has moved to mstdn.social@Jennifer fr. it literally sounds like a placeholder
maxlath@Jennifer I prefer the form X-Twitter, which gives all the information you need, while giving a sense that Twitter is dead
@maxlath I like this!
AnneTheWriter@AnneTheWriter1 @maxlath @Jennifer I used to pronounce it like “exitter” until I realised that’s a real place (Exeter). Oh well.
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Musk has this weird thing for the letter X. I'm not going to call it a fetish, that would be irresponsible and also border on libel. But you can certainly tell which episodes of Sesame Street were his favorites. Frankly, I'm amazed he didn't call Tesla 'DriveX' or something.
How apropos that he's the X of so many women.
Mans R@mansr I do. 🙂
Gerard Cunningham ✒️@sjvn Weird how Google is still Google to everyone, never Alphabet.
autumn@sjvn reposting with Alt Text:
Dear copy editors, if Meta and X are Facebook and Twitter to the Supreme Court, that's good enough for me, and it should be good enough for you.
xs4me2Exactly… no way to fool us.
Jaime Herazo@sjvn
What's this from by the way?
What's this from by the way?
@jherazob You'll find it in the footnotes on page 2 of SCOTUS's Murphy vs. Missouri decision. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf
Athanasius HAS MOVED@sjvn I consider Twitter dead and gone, and may X soon join it. The rename doesn't precisely delineate when the sale and enshittification started, but it'll do.
But I can respect the reasoning in this case, given the whole "past actions" and what they were called *then*.
DaveBarnes@sjvn
I prefer Xitter
I prefer Xitter
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸@sjvn @Aphrodite Be ungovernable.
Dr Know@sjvn Facebook doesn't get to hijack the word meta, meta is a great word, facebook is a shit service
Lighty
Paralax^SD@sjvn Basically they're saying that they'll choose to dead name those companies because they feel like it.