BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

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I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign

my guy you don't have to censor the word twitter

The childish censorship of names of people and things has been one of my biggest internet bug bears over the last few years.

Well you gotta keep your posts ad friendly, you know?

to be fair, the word Mastodon was being censored on Twitter at one point, but doesn't mean the other way happens in the Fediverse.

Are we supposed to call it X now? What a dumb name, in my opinion.

'The site formerly known as twitter'

The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo

“TSFKAT”.

Fewer letters than “Twitter”, expresses more than “X”.

I have seen worse names (“X Æ A-12”) get more eyeballs.

I still call it Twitter and will continue to do so. :)

I literally saw it everywhere on Mastodon, like, I honestly never saw anyone say it directly, just "birdsite" or a censored version. So I adapted to be polite. And sometimes forget which form of fediverse I'm posting on.

It would be funny to censor X just with a single *