• InfynisEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        Wait, really? Why is it called whitepeopletwitter? I thought it was for making fun of people like Elon Musk

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          4 months ago

          That name is a holdover from reddit. IIRC, it was created as the white version of r/blackpeopletwitter. When people jumped over to Lemmy, some people (sensibly) noted that it’s stupid to segregate tweets, and since we aren’t on reddit anymore, we don’t need to stick with their conventions. However, by that time the community had already been named, and it couldn’t be changed.

          • InfynisEnglish
            4·
            4 months ago

            Ah, interesting. Well, thanks for the info!

        • mkwt@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 months ago

          Oh are we talking about urls vs display names? On my client, this community appears as “People Twitter”.