I feel very strongly about calling Elon Musk's social media platform "X" because I want to remind people that Twitter is gone -- it's dead. And we know who killed it. We need to acknowledge the power that one edgelord billionaire has over our public sphere, and remind ourselves that we cannot reclaim that space. We can't make it "ours" again by calling it Twitter. I'd rather build up new spaces online than chase after the memory of one that is lost.
@annaleen I've wondered about the ubiquity of the "root" model in file systems, etc. And at least part of it is how it reinforces the social construction of property. I'm not sure how many people really get this, how much these systems are designed so that a few people, even one person, has the ultimate password and the last word, and can just outright destroy digital culture.