An Irish commission ruled that a former Twitter executive's firing was unjust and ordered the company to pay over $600,000 in damages.
    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
      62·
      3 months ago

      I prefer the latter, because it’s so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).

      • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        exactly this. i have a filter on certain keywords. his name is in there but there’s nothing I can do to avoid posts about the platform.

        it’s super irritating.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Does your filter recognize whitespace? Including a space before and/or after X should catch the posts about the platform while not filtering out posts that just have an X inside a word somewhere. X isn’t going to be a single letter surrounded by space unless it’s referring to the platform.

          • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            i have tried with various formats and unfortunately none of them work, or they just ignore the attempt.

            i appreciate you trying to help, though. i honestly just kinda wish it would change names again so it’d be easier to somehow block. lol

            • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Ah, fair enough. I’m almost certain some sort of regex wizardry would be able to solve this problem, but I’m not nearly enough of a wizard to tell you what the proper spell would be. And that’s assuming your filter even supports regex.

              Best of luck dodging headlines, I guess.

        • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.

  • Mighty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    3 months ago

    you know what I always stan for? “former Twitter”. I just love that shit! I hope it always stays like this to show that the rebranding didn’T work

    • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      3 months ago

      I’ve been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:

      Instead of “X (formally know as Twitter)”, the time has come for “Twitter (currently called X)”.

      • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        3 months ago

        just call it twitter. literally everyone knows what it is, and twitter.com still redirects there so who gives a shit what he’s calling it. don’t show his site the courtesy he doesn’t show to his own daughter.

      • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        3 months ago

        I’m not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.

        I don’t quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that’s more subtle.

        X can fuck the duck right off.

      • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I still call it Facebook. Meta is equally stupid as X. Meta as a word already existed in multiple different ways. Now if you say ‘that’s meta’ you have to stop and think, which may be why I’ve seen that phrase really die out.

      • LittleBorat3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        The meta rebranding is not as evil as the hostile takeover of Twitter. So I am inclined to accept that name change but I do not know really what using meta means.

        I don’t use FB, if I did I would still say FB. I use WhatsApp and I don’t call that meta. I guess the individual products just keep their names here.

        • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          There is also the difference that Facebook the service is still called Facebook. Only the company name changed, but not the product name. Where for Twitter, he renamed both the product and the company.

    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
      67·
      3 months ago

      Yeah it’s worth noting that the employee in this case had the resources to fight. Hopefully other regular non-executive employees can use it as precedent for their own lawsuits.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        22·
        3 months ago

        Not sure how different it is in Ireland, but here in Australia you’d have spoken to the fair work ombudsman and they’d go and “fight” this for you.

        Seeing as the article says “Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission” handled this, kinda sounds like a similar situation rather than wealth having anything to do with it.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          In America the various states have labor boards, but almost no one knows this and gets taken advantage of.

          Last thing an employer wants is a call from the labor board. They default to the employee is always right, burden in on the employer to prove otherwise.

    • bastionntb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Of course. Not like they’d order the same for the custodian or whatever. But because they are of high status they get protected.

      • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        my exact thoughts, every single employee who received this email should have sued his ass. You are only required to work as much as your contract details and this a clear instance of workplace bullying