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.
yiliu, As a looong-time Linux user…does it, though?
I’m pretty sure not even the developers of X like X…
Vilian, it give good memories, it wasn’t perfect but was there for us, nostalgic
yiliu, 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?
sanpo, Good because they’re in the past and we don’t have to do this anymore…
oo1, 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, 
Looking up modeline’s for your monitor…
ebits21, 
I mean, the same devs are making Wayland so.
vox, 
both don’t spark joy.
x11 is a mess.
possiblylinux127, XXX?
Resol, 
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, And for those wondering, it’s a “mathematical double-struck capital x”.
Resol, I kinda wonder what makes it “mathematical”
999666, Probably used in vector notation and gauge fields
Spike, 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, In set theory, this style, blackboard bold is used to represent “special sets”, for example the set of all integers
Resol, Now I remember exactly what you mean
GustavoM, 
…I’m (quite) sure that X is an indirect mockery to zoomers/millenials tho. But yeah, the Year of the Li— er, Wayland desktop is upon us lads.
gaw, Ahh so this is why the front image looks like a screen tearing 😬
croobat, 
Bro really trying to trademark a character.
zombuey, 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, How could microsoft trademark a letter?
zombuey, apparently easily.
mexicancartel, Ridiculous which companies own all of the alphabets?(i’m sure they do)
Fer24, Ok, Musk have an obsession with the letter X
Rom, 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, i pro𝕄ise i won't
davetapley, Is is pronounced eye-vee-eye, or pipe-slash-(slash-?)slash-pipe(-pipe?)?
Rom, It’s actually completely unpronounceable.
emeralddawn45, H t t p colon backslash backslash Slash dot dot org
Rootiest, 
Is the use of back-slash instead of forward-slash an attempt to confuse any potential users?
CannaVet, Does anybody under 30 even know about the http:// part of urls?
Untitled_Pribor, 
Yes.
emeralddawn45, 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.
Rootiest, Pipe-slash Slash-pipe is an acceptable band name.
joel_feila, 
that sounds like a guns and roses cover band.
Shit, 
Where is Richard Stallman when you need him?
nitefox, Neither of them sparks joy
IHeartBadCode, 
This just in, Elon Musk's company will no longer support nVidia out of the box.
SneakyThunder, X.org propaganda!
d_k_bo, The bottom one is just U+1D54F.
JackRiddle, Twitter is doing what? Why? ???
Xeelee, 
Some megalomaniac man child thought it was a good idea.
spamspeicher, Not why. X.
starman, 
Same reasons as reddit. Pure stupidity.
blake, 
Give spez a few weeks and he’ll have followed with a reddit rebrand.
khelmr, 
Coming soon: reddit changes its name to 𝕐, because 𝕐 not?
ozymandias117, 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, I thought x.com became paypal
ozymandias117, It was taken over by PayPal, yeah. PayPal was the better processor and didn’t want competition
zephr_c, 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.
sci, musk likes X better
ImplyingImplications, Want everyone to stop talking about your mistakes and failures? Rebrand! Now everyone is focused on your new stupid logo!
JackRiddle, 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
Semi-Hemi-Demigod, 
It totally worked for Xfinity
FearTheNoFear, Charter did the same and rebranded to Spectrum.
GatoB, Its rage bait and everyone is still promoting it
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