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.

It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • @Rozz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    42•2 years ago

    I wanted to use mastodon, but I haven’t even used twitter in years, so then I realized I just don’t social media that way anymore (or much at all for that matter).

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11•2 years ago

      I got it and I’m trapped in a weird bubble of shit that doesn’t really interest me and I don’t like microblogging I think

      • Frost WolfOPEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        Same. @squizzy, I don’t like microblogging in general either. I was raised in the golden era of forums (the days of phpBB and vBulletin). My twitter account hasn’t been touched for years now.

    • @bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      I never used Twitter save for occasionally hearing about tweets, but I have been enjoying using Mastodon because in practice it’s basically just a way for me to have a feed of cool astronomy pictures.

      • @Rozz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I found cool astronomy pictures on Reddit, and some now on lemmy! Cheers for random cool pictures of space.

    • Ann ArchyEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      I was finally super duper permabanned from Reddit, and decided to give up. No more workarounds, new accounts, new emails, spoofing MAC addresses, multihop VPNs… And I’ve got to say, I have gotten more done in the past few weeks than in the last year combined.