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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    1 year ago

    So the rebrand comes with X promising to be an app to replace everything?

    X gonna give it to ya, X gonna deliver it to ya.

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      1 year ago

      He wants something like WeChat that does everything.

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        1 year ago

        Less than 1% of twitter users signed up to pay for twitter blue. And less than 1% of twitter users are going to do their banking through a social media site run by a megalomaniac. This is doomed to failure, just like it was 20 years ago.

        As painful as it might be for him, this dude really needs to let go of his obsession with the letter X.

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        1 year ago

        He does know that Wechat is the everything app because of the authoritarian government, right…right?

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          1 year ago

          I think he knows well how it works.