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As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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[-] User_4272894@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I can fathom no world where you'd want to trade away a multi billion dollar brand for a new brand you literally can't SEO. What, you think your brand is gonna be more impressive that the generic variable, and a part of the alphabet?

"Follow me on Twitter" becomes "follow me on X"? "You should tweet that" becomes "you should X that"? The little blue bird on every shop window, website, and business card becomes a stylized letter that, hopefully, doesn't look so threatening on the next iteration?

It's a textbook case of brand destruction. I almost regret never making a Twitter in the first place, just so I could quit today, or at any of the hundred days in the past year where it got inexplicably worse without reason.

[-] teolan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

“You should tweet that” becomes “you should X that”

"You should X-create" that

[-] teolan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And a tweet becomes an "X-cretion"

[-] notapantsday@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Hikiru@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

“Hey, check out this X video”

[-] azura@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I should X that sounds like I should delete/close that. How apt.

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[-] Roundcat@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Yay, another week of higher than normal activity, until the fomo kicks back in and they leave yet again cause "everyone is on X/this is sooo complicated/I just wanna see the fallout/whatever excuse justifies their addiction"

[-] sam@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Every time that happens the fedi retains a good chunk of users. There's significant and stable growth throughout.

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[-] TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] REdOG@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm just here to spread the good word about old.lemmy.world

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for Lemmy Enhancement Suite.

Because LES is more.

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[-] CharlieAus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Addiction it is. They think they are advocating for health and social justice. But they're not. They're just addicted to Twitter/X. I mean... it's owned by someone who pays fascists to post on there, but they are still there? WTAF?

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Serious question: Are Mastadon users just like kbin and Lemmy users, but with a character limit?

[-] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 7 points 1 year ago

You mean, are we a part of the same Fediverse? Yes. I’m actually replying to you right now from my Mastodon account! Still not over how cool that is!

But yeah, there’s a character limit. The instance I’m from is donphan.social. Our character limit is 1,008.

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[-] jantin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I tried Mastodon and failed. Lemmy is different IMO in that you can freely access, write on and read all lemmy communities from any Lemmy instance (and apparently from Mastodon). On Masto you're quite siloed-in, can't follow "local" from a thematic instance with an account on another (and in Lemmy you can follow thematic communities from all around the threadiverse), people won't see your content unless they either actively follow you or read the local/global feed. Curating feed is a necessary effort and not too easy one since you only get to follow individual users.

[-] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

They even stole x.org's logo:

[-] Gacrux@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

believe it or not its more likely they straight up ripped off U+1D54F MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X:

𝕏

absolutely no creativity. at least threads drew the ring in @ clockwise instead of the usual anticlockwise

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Saw this on Mastodon:

Important sets:

ℂ the complex numbers

ℕ the natural numbers

ℚ the rational numbers

ℝ the real numbers

𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes

ℤ the integers

[-] beto@lemmy.studio 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My favorite comment about this from Mastodon: "X is just a sans serif swastika".

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I would argue that ℤ would also be the set of Russian fascist wannabes.

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[-] kaotic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Elon has no idea how to run a social media company. At this point he's just trying random shit hoping it will work. Get the platform operating successfully again and then worry about branding...

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[-] ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What makes this even better is that apparently Mark Zuckerberg / Mets owns trademark for the X logo.

You know what that means! Millionaire monkey money fight!

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[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

A more appropriate rebranding would be 'L'.

[-] CharlieAus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Mastadon is where the smart people hang out... X is the fascist site and Facebook/Threads is the frivolous and stupid site.

[-] Ktheone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, Facebook and x are both fascistic sides because of the amount of qanons and magats I've seen on facebook

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[-] samokosik@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe if twitter keeps fucking shit up, mastodon will become mainstream haha. I would certainly love to see that.

[-] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't want to rain on your parade but I'll do it anyway: The numbers of active posts and members in Lemmy communities, even in the most active ones, are mindbogglingly low in comparison with Reddit, even in comparison to somethingawful what I still consider the dirty cousin of Reddit.

All the numbers are just two sizes lower than Reddit and then there is the atrocious web interface. I have stopped counting how often my posts got eaten, the reply button didn't react and general stuff didn't work at all.

[-] adonis@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

we willget there eventually.
you can't compare a product that is decades old wuth something that's fairly new.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hear ya... The advantage that Lemmy and kbin have over Mastodon is that Redditors tend to be more technically inclined than Twitter users, so ditching Reddit for Lemmy was easy, while I only know a grand total of three people on Mastodon, and two of them are tech YouTubers.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Redditors tend to be more technically inclined than Twitter users

This used to be true, but Reddit has been mainstream for years now. Today's average Redditor is likely pretty similar to the average Twitter user.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

When a quarter of the replies on Reddit have become "this" or "💯" or "^^," which it feels like it became when I left, I'd agree with you.

[-] Busy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I remember when you'd get ripped apart and down voted to hell for daring to use an emoji on Reddit when commenting. People hated it. Then one day it was fine to do it, no one cared anymore. I guess that's around when Reddit became mainstream, maybe.

[-] beefbaby182@mastodon.world 1 points 1 year ago

@Busy @FlyingSquid

Probably cause more and more users gravitated to mobile where it became commonplace to include emojis in posts. I remember too when using emojis was a mortal sin. At most you could use an emoticon but that was it.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And my axe!

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[-] jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's a bummer, hang in there Mastodon, keep bloomscrollin

Hopefully a massive influx of Twitter jerks doesn't kill what makes Mastodon a nice place in the first place.

[-] FightMilk@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

Serious question, isn't this going to force them to release their trademark on the word "tweet"?

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