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Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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[–] Rom@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hey gang I just designed a logo for my new social media company, let me know your thoughts:

𝕄

(trademark pending pls don't steal)

[–] Neon@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

i pro𝕄ise i won't

[–] davetapley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is is pronounced eye-vee-eye, or pipe-slash-(slash-?)slash-pipe(-pipe?)?

[–] Rom@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's actually completely unpronounceable.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

H t t p colon backslash backslash Slash dot dot org

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is the use of back-slash instead of forward-slash an attempt to confuse any potential users?

Nope just been a long time since I've written out the hypertext protocol lol, I guess my memory is failing in my old age.

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[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Twitter is doing what? Why? ???

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It totally worked for Xfinity

[–] FearTheNoFear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Charter did the same and rebranded to Spectrum.

[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

This I understand, but why in the name of the gods both old and new to X?? Why just one letter? ~Does his brain not work?~

Nvm figured it out

[–] GatoB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Its rage bait and everyone is still promoting it

[–] spamspeicher@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Not why. X.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk really likes the letter X, and his previous x.com venture from 1999 went belly up

So, he’s rebranding his new toy to his favorite letter

[–] Gooboob@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought x.com became paypal

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

PayPal didn't have enough cash to expand as quickly as they wanted to though, so they merged with x.com to get ahold of that blood emerald money.

[–] starman@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.

[–] blake@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.

[–] khelmr@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?

[–] sci@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

musk likes X better

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

The bottom one is just U+1D54F.

https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F

[–] yiliu@informis.land 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a looong-time Linux user...does it, though?

I'm pretty sure not even the developers of X like X...

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it give good memories, it wasn't perfect but was there for us, nostalgic

[–] yiliu@informis.land 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a lot of memories of debugging xf86config, browsing forums & docs in lynx in another term, frantically trying to get a GUI so I could finish an assignment or whatever...

I guess those are good memories?

[–] oo1@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah
that black and white dotty screen where the mouse is a black X.
. . . after the 25th edit.
what a time to be alive.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Looking up modeline's for your monitor...

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Good because they're in the past and we don't have to do this anymore...

[–] croobat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro really trying to trademark a character.

[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

whats wild is its already trademarked by Microsoft for numerous use cases and by Meta for this specific use case. I just don't know how you don't check on that.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could microsoft trademark a letter?

[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

apparently easily.

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.

Don't believe me? I can just type 𝕏 out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I kinda wonder what makes it "mathematical"

[–] Spike@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The fancy line that barely distinguishes it from any other X, capital or not or maybe with a wiggly line, so you get extra confused in your proof on line 13 or something.

[–] xor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In set theory, this style, blackboard bold is used to represent "special sets", for example the set of all integers

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Now I remember exactly what you mean

[–] Fer24@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X

X.org propaganda!

[–] nitefox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Neither of them sparks joy

[–] HikuNoir@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Will X be using TWM from now on?

[–] Shit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

both don't spark joy.
x11 is a mess.

[–] gaw@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬

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