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Elon's X logo totally looks like the X Window System's logo.
His love affair with the letter X is wild. I'm not calling Twitter X, that's embarrassing. What are tweets called? Exs? Retweets are Ohs? Like...
Edit: Okay so I was shitposting and didn't see this until now.
It's hidden sexual innuendo. Just like the Tesla lineup, S3XY.
Zuck trademarked 'X' a few years ago. Elmo might have a nice legal battle at his hands shortly.
There is some poetic justice given the way Zuckerberg has apparently steamrolled other trademarks like Meta PC and Threads.com.
Hopefully the user-unfriendly corporate social media companies get so distracted fighting each other and destroying their own products that it gives FLOSS fediverse software a decent opening to get everyone onto the fediverse.