Twitter Literally Isn't Twitter Anymore

On Wednesday afternoon, after getting home from work, I decided to check a couple of friends' Twitter pages, just to see what they've been up to. However, I couldn't—because for some reason, it kept trying to redirect to an x.com page, failing, and throwing up a blank page before repeating the process. So I disabled one of my Firefox extensions, and the pages loaded just fine—except now, of course, they were loading from the x.com domain instead of twitter.com.

I suppose this was inevitable, since the rebrand from Twitter to "X" last July...but it still pisses me off.

Ever since Elon Musk took over the site, I've slowly been trying to distance myself from it, because a) he doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing with regards to, like, fucking anything; and b) he's decided it would be really neat and cool if he unbanned all the Neo-Nazis and decided to finally "make comedy legal" (their idea of "comedy", naturally, being endless slurs). The rebrand to "X" last July was what pushed me to not only delete the app from my phone, but remove it from my download history just so it wouldn't have any presence in my phone's account.

The rebrand is something I've hated ever since its announcement, because it both gives off "fictional evil corporation" vibes and just sounds really generic. Elbow sticks the letter X everywhere, up to and including the name of his poor son, so he seems to really like the letter—and you know what? I used to like it too. Thanks for ruining it for me, dude.

Now, none of this is going to stop me from continuing to call it Twitter. Mr Emerald Money himself could hold a gun to my face and threaten to shoot me unless I started calling it X and I'd just keep calling it Twitter, because as lot of other, much funnier people have already said, "It's okay to deadname corporations, because corporations are not people". The domain change, more than anything, is just confirmation that Twitter is no longer the site it used to be. Not that it was a remotely good site in the first place; it's just gone from being a rubbish fire, to being a rubbish fire that all the worst people are actively tossing petrol into.

As an aside, when I opened it up after the domain change, I saw this little message at the bottom:

and all I could think when I read it was, "What fuckin' data and privacy protection? You were considering deleting the block feature in favour of 'a stronger mute' (whatever that's supposed to be), you only decided to ban revealing anonymous users' names once it happened to your favourite Neo-Nazi webcomic guy, and you've got an AI chatbot that no doubt scrapes data from your users. Don't you dare try and talk to me about data and privacy protection."

Anyway, that's my Twitter rant out of the way. Sorry I don't have anything interesting to share—I just felt the need to vent.

In hopefully more exciting news, I've spent a little bit of time playing with Linux, and for some reason, trying to create a theme for it! Hopefully I'll be able to share some stuff soon.