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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] player1@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Hey bros wanna see me light $40 billion on fire?”

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia spent good money to never have an Arab Spring again.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Which is nuts because they have a nationwide content filter and could just blacklist Twitter and be done with it in 5 minutes.