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Austrian airlines leaves Xitter (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 174 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is this the first time I'm hearing X-it? That's pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You probably haven't heard "X-it" because everyone still calls it Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I still call it Twitter because it pisses Musk off. Not that he is on Lemmy, but principal of the matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I call it X to piss off X users so they quit. Musk doesn't read my posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Source on it pissing him off?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hmmm, that to me sounds like he's trolling to drive engagement. At least that is the result he got.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter is dead and X never even existed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Because a marketing writer just came up with it.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Daily reminder that the X in Xitter is pronounced 'Shi' like in Chinese

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It took me 3 tries to realize she wasn't saying "We took a moment to locate our nearest shit."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Well, you never really think about where the nearest shit is to you

[–] RamblingPanda 7 points 4 months ago

I did as I flew back from Malaysia with a really bad food poisoning. I had to re schedule my flight and whole booking the new seat I made sure it was in sprint reach of the nearest shit...er.

That was a fun trip

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

But i do think about where the nearest xitter (shitter) is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was inside you all along.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

music swells

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hey speak for yourself. i think about this ALL the time when i go to the dog park

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, She is the current president, Who is the last president of China.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there's a mastodon client by the name of shitter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe I should try it out… it's not Moshidon, but it has a perfect name!

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago

I hope this leads to many other companies using their abandonment of Xitter as a way to dunk on them in a viral way.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

When will the Musk-child sue them?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can we start saying shxitter now?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (1 children)

xitter is pronounced "shitter"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

When you're too fascist for the Austrians...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Are they on another platform like BlueSky or Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dude, you've failed your reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (3 children)

My favourite urban legend is that there’s a special desk at the Vienna airport for people who accidentally flew to Austria instead of Australia.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not quite as fun but my mum works for postal services in Austria and there's a special stamp for mail accidentally sent to Austria instead of Australia

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The volume of missent mail has certainly gone down in recent years due to both communication moving online and international post adopting more precise adress systems, but 10-15 years ago you could get parcels with multiple "missent to Austria - missent to Australia" stamps on them due to some incompetent people not realizing where it should actually go.

[–] RamblingPanda 14 points 4 months ago

Talking about incompetence...

My wife ordered something from Sweden years ago and apparently there's a city in the US with the same name as ours, so it was sent there. Then to Jamaica, because... Who knows. Then to Germany, where customs wanted to have taxes collected, because it came from the Americas. We told them to send it back to Sweden. Four years later, DHL wrote a letter asking for money for the effort handing it over to customs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same the other way around. And for the Koreas

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I've had 'missent to Australia; try Austria' hand written on a parcel, so I didn't know that!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

Imagine the shenanigans if a small town in Australia with a small airport was named Vienna

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I went to Vienna for a conference for work in 2016. When I got back, I turned in my receipts, and the admin assistant helpfully typed up my reimbursement paperwork, carefully converting to USD from Australian dollars.

It was at that moment that I was glad I'd made my own flight and hotel reservations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Autocorrect.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

press X to quit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I love how both pronunciations work here. Exit or shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Uh oh, someone is going to get sued!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

rambling about selfhosting

I saw someone suggesting that organizations should host instances, then I'm now thinking, that's the most smart shit ever!

  1. You can control your data
  2. Own rules so you don't get banned over random shit
  3. Third pro

of course there would be some work to host and mantain it, but it would surely be hella nice to have goverments and etc doing this stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I would love for that to take off, that's what I've been wanting into too. Problem is they have to handle moderation, but I think there are solutions to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Austrian Airlines took THE flight!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Highly based