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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[–] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I honestly think that he believes himself to be some sort of super genius that only has good ideas, just cause he wrote some software and sold it for alot of money when he was younger.

[–] notst@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy actually wrote software? Like he coded it?

[–] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He wrote something called zip2 and sold it. Then he wrote get this... x.com, which became PayPal.

Edit, because I didn't really answer your question: yes he did code it, as far as anyone seems to know.

[–] smokeymcpott@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

More importantly: he was born rich