• Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    832·
    4 months ago

    That’s a good tweet, but this is definitely the wrong community

    Edit: people have explained to me that this is not actually the case, and the name of the community is just a leftover from Reddit

              • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
                6·
                4 months ago

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

                • zarkanian
                  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.

                • 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”.