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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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[โ€“] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When a quarter of the replies on Reddit have become "this" or "๐Ÿ’ฏ" or "^^," which it feels like it became when I left, I'd agree with you.

[โ€“] Busy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] beefbaby182@mastodon.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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.

[โ€“] notst@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Back when I started using Reddit it was frowned upon to post OC. I remember some subs had rules that you would be banned if you more than like 10% of your posts were OC.

[โ€“] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And my axe!

[โ€“] Tag365@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I feel like when the Reddit API controversy happened I was more inclined to switch due to the blackout vs Twitter which didn't have nearly as instant of an event that would happen to get me off. Now all of a sudden because of Reddit I'm on various Fediverse projects such as Funkwhale, Mastodon, Kbin, and Lemmy.