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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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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Um yeah, I'm not seeing that. You can see monthly active users on https://the-federation.info/platform/21 and it's been fluctuating up and down, no big jump. So I call bullshit on that article based on the metric there. Though no doubt as Twitter (X) implodes Mastodon will see the fallout with higher activity.

[–] woshang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I guess the whole Threads battle making Elon realize he needs to be the data master, and X born earlier than I expected

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Twitter hasn’t even rebranded yet and an article like this comes out? Jumping the gun a bit don’t they think?

99% of the people that were leaving twitter when musk took over are still there. They’re too invested to leave. People like Steven King just keep making fools of themselves by still being there 12 months later complaining about how bad Twitter is.

[–] PizzasDontWearCapes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Check out the app or webpage, they've already put in the temp X logo

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[–] Umbra@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Apparently this is all part of some grand master plan. Maybe Elon will pull it off???

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

His master plan sure does seem massively reactionary for a master plan

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[–] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't want to rain on your parade but I'll do it anyway: The numbers of active posts and members in Lemmy communities, even in the most active ones, are mindbogglingly low in comparison with Reddit, even in comparison to somethingawful what I still consider the dirty cousin of Reddit.

All the numbers are just two sizes lower than Reddit and then there is the atrocious web interface. I have stopped counting how often my posts got eaten, the reply button didn't react and general stuff didn't work at all.

[–] adonis@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

we willget there eventually.
you can't compare a product that is decades old wuth something that's fairly new.

[–] samokosik@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe if twitter keeps fucking shit up, mastodon will become mainstream haha. I would certainly love to see that.

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