Stop using Xitter, people. Let it die.
And that’s an X with a Chinese pronunciation, no doubt.
Chinese has sh, x is a different sound.
sh is a retroflex sibilant whereas x is an alveolo-palatal sibilant. They are both sibilants so they have a shared quality, but indeed “xitter” and “shitter” doesn’t sound quite the same.
News, businesses, and celebrities continue to use it for some reason. It won’t die until they stop.
Look how deep Twitter is in sports reporting. Any article about an event in a game (a goal, a hit in hockey, etc.) has the video… from Twitter. It’s the default and just won’t stop. Until that mindset changes, I’m afraid Twitter will continue to exist.
News and business can be found on News sites. Celebrities are irrelevant.
Maybe to you, but not to the masses.
Like it or not, people are interested in celebrities. I wouldn’t call that irrelevant in the attention economy.
Just because people want to hear about celebrities, doesn’t make them relevant. News, Business, and Politics has an effect on your daily life and quality of life. Should effect how you vote, where you shop, or where you look for a job, etc.
Celebrities do not. They’re propping up a site run by a eugenics supporter because they’re voyeurs.
The “people want to hear about celebrities” part is relevant to the fact that interests drive a big part of the audience to the site. Meaning, you and I both want celebrities to be off Twitter because if we can convince them to go elsewhere, that would be an effective way to cripple Twitter.
Complaining that people like celebrities when they’re not “relevant to your daily life” doesn’t really do anything to further your goals. It just makes you sound like an asshole who isn’t relatable to the kind of people that we want to listen to us.
It just makes you sound like an asshole who isn’t relatable to the kind of people that we want to listen to us.
Cool, cool.
I just separate “wants” and “needs” and wants aren’t important enough to a site run like someone like Musk.
Did ages ago. Unfortunately, as long as politicians and other public figures use it as their go-to method of communicating with the public, it’s not going to be allowed to die.
No matter how awful it’s become (and I agree that it’s absolutely abysmal), it’s still a very convenient tool for some very powerful and cynical people and as long as that’s the case, it’ll keep limping on.
I really wish there was an alternative for complaining/publicizing stupid shit that businesses do. Last year I had friends working at a Target when that bomb threat bullshit over Pride merch happened - their store refused to let the employees EVACUATE after a threat was called in. Twitter would have been the place to shame that.
their store refused to let the employees EVACUATE
If there’s an emergency, just leave. There’s no way HR can approve a disciplinary action for leaving an unsafe work environment. Put all your money and stuff away and leave.
The people working at Target might not be able to afford the time or the lawyer it takes to defend their rights.
I think the question was about the step after that.
Special snowflake ‘the muskrat’ cant handle being called cis
“It sounds like it’s short for sissy, and I’m not a sissy! 🥺”
These are the same people who like to call other people “snowflakes”… but they can’t handle being categorized by a scientific term, even though they constantly categorize everyone else by all the minor ways they are different from them, usually with actual slurs. Someone lend me the tiny violin.
Someone lend me the tiny violin.
Sorry, best I can do is this sad trombone.
I’m sorry, your comment has been removed by automod because sad trombone only gets used against right wing people as an insult.
Someone needs to make a website/cam with the world’s truly smallest playable violin with a button to play it. :)
Edit: I can’t take credit for this, I’ve just seen it around here a bunch.
I think that is a cello not a violin. Though it does get really hard to tell when they are down on the Micrometer scale.
Judging by the thickness of the instrument relative to its width, yes that’s cello. Or, at that size, a “cell”-o.
TARDIGRADE
Dude, you can’t use that word anymore.
snowflake!!!
Real “free speech absolutist” vibes, Muskrat.
I’ve been called “heterosexual white male”, won’t Musky do anything about that? I’m literally crying, we’re the most attacked majority, life is unbearable for us!
Have you heard how people use the term?
The H word?
It’s okay so long as you don’t use the “er”
Like you can say “What’s up, my het!” to your straight friends.
Awwww poor baby! Does somebody need a hug and some juice?
We should say this to everyone when they’re demeaned for their innate characteristics, it makes everything better 🤔
Hypocrite.
There there.
90% of the time I hear it, it’s because I’m about to have a very fun evening.
All headlines for “X” need to just be soecufucally replaced with “Elon Musk”
At this point the two are synonymous.
We need to start phrasing it as:
“Elon musk’s platform…” now.
tweet --> xcrement
Proposal: replace every obscene word with his name.
He probably has tabs on mentions of him even without @ or #. Making it a trend could be golden if it could be done without using Twitter.
Musk, verb. To take something functional and turn it into literal shit.
“Wow! We had such a good thing going, too. Can’t believe he musked all over this project!”
People who are offended by “cis” are offended because they already think about “trans” as a negative thing. If they just considered “trans” a neutral descriptor of someone instead of part of a lesser/greater hierarchy, they would see “cis” as a neutral descriptor as well, which it is.
I think it’s just because Twitter is a hellhole that often uses it to invalidate people, if not as a straight up insult. It may not be a slur on its own, but it sure is often used like one.
I can’t justify Elon banning it, especially over other slurs. But l sure as hell can see why people can be offended by it for reasons other than that they hate trans people
I’ve always figured it offends them because if they accept the term they are de facto recognizing being trans is a thing at all. The term is only necessary if trans is a legit concept.
This is a very generous estimation of the depth of their logical thinking.
My personal read is that cis people, especially cis white people, hate pronouns/genders and racial celebration because it’s something they can’t have. That they can’t control. And that doesn’t hinge on them. They’re boring, and insignificant, and they’re bitter and jealous about it.
It’s like a kid who doesn’t want to play a game anymore because they aren’t winning. Not to suggest that they aren’t winning, because by all accounts they’ve been winning for thousands of years. But even still, the panic they feel from any lack of understanding or loss of control is responded to by smashing the game board and pouting with their arms crossed.
You should pick up a history book and talk to some real breathing people for a change.
Well, for one example, the British monarchy is about 1500 years old and they’ve done nothing that didn’t serve the cis white community to the detriment of anyone who isn’t a religious white straight person across the entire face of the planet.
I would argue that you should consider who writes the history books and who they serve.
As for real people, I see them everyday. As for breathing people, there are far fewer queer and brown people than there should be, because they were murdered, stolen from, subjugated, repressed, and neglected as a course of standard operating procedure of the “status quo”.
Do you think only straight white people benefitted from the British Empire? Or are you saying this of the Monarchy per se?
Did you know that it’s dehumanizing to deny another human’s difficulty and pain in life?
So, not only is it a slur, it’s not even one of the ones which are free speech.
“Freedom is always the freedom of the cisman”
Is their moderation technology smart enough to not censor cis inside words?
Cistern
Decision
Scissors
Excise
Cisplatin
Incisive
Doesn’t matter what you use, Musk can’t take criticism.
Precisely.
I think it’s all because he’s afraid of being called a narcissist, but then he came up with banning just “cis” to hide his true intentions. He probably thinks it’s incisive and executed with precision, but to me it’s bad decision making.
*drops mic
circumcision
Hmm why does x only care about the things bullies care about hmm
Exactly. Meme police has no place in the social media apparatus designed to harvest the only valuable asset from the masses: trends.
This is fucking horrifying.
Hey guys, relax, I heard Oceania just had a massive victory over the Eurasian armies.
I’m really looking forward to the increased chocolate ration.
That was so tight! I heard it went up! Even though the number seems smaller. I probably forgot.
Are you kidding? We’re up to 7 grams per day now
Where can i get a list of all the words twitter considers a slur?
The title of this post
What part of list dont u understand? There is one word whats the other words does twitter publish it? Is it available for download? Or is this based on quallatitive experience?
It was a joke. Well, sort of. A true joke, if you will.
So ur joke was that cis is the only word twitter recognises as a slur?
Well, it was my joke, not theirs… but yes… that’s the joke
Thats so original im still waiting on my list tho
Go to school, champ. You’ll get there.
Frankly, why do people still use that garbage of a platform?
Network effect. People can’t leave because the people they like to talk with are they and those people can’t leave for the same reason.
Those still there don’t know better (lots of millenials, and older, folks and those barely online), like Elon’s changes, or are there passively (syndicating other feeds).
Same reason people still use Facebook, it’s why it’s known most of the time these days as the old people platform.
Because there isn’t a good replacement. Mastodon is a mess with no reach and servers that will perma-ban you if you don’t post for a week, bsky is still kinda tiny, spoutible feels like “all politics all the time”, cohost is jank.
Nobody really left Twitter because Twitter is where everyone else is.
servers that will perma-ban you if you don’t post for a week
Citation Fucking needed.
My anecdoral experience, although I was probably exagerrating a bit.
Still, if I take a break from twitter/bsky/cohost/spoutible/whatever for a month, I don’t come back to “we decided this account is banned now and you can’t get it back, have fun”. Lost three mastodon accounts like that before I just gave up.
I’m honestly loving the changes elon has made to twitter, its like every day I can wake up and see some dumb bullshit that they’ve done to the platform. I hope they ban the letter E next.
hy, don’t qustion th will of th grat Lon Musk!
He’s still mad he couldn’t get the “Model E” trademark for Tesla
nah if anything it’ll be the letter T
