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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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[–] 99nights@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, it sure sounds like X is delivering users to Mastodon.

[–] And009@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Plot twist, Elon is a Mastodon marketer

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It sounds like he's trying to copy zombo.com (listen to the audio for at least 30 seconds to a minute - the animation is a little broken by now)

[–] gunnm@monero.town 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He wants something like WeChat that does everything.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] gunnm@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

I think he knows well how it works.