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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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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

But they...were?

https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

They were called toots and they fucking got rid of it? How uncreative can you be!?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

we can keep calling them toots

[-] Owlchemist@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I vote for calling them twats instead

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