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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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This reminds me of the time that the movie XxX came out and it was difficult to find to pirate.

When you name yourself anything with a lot of X's then your search engine results are going to point to adult entertainment over the product

[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just googled X, musk isn't on the first page of results, absolute melon of a man.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

google is broken anyway after 2 decades of people fucking with the algo by offering SEO services. The search results are basically random now unless you really focus your search term.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Google should have added SEO detection that would allow a site to be near the top for enough time for an SEO consultant to get paid, then drop the site to page 4. SEO would have looked like a scam before long.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

And then you add the lead actor to the search terms and it gets even worse