As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch - eviltoast

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.

  • Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Those same people have “only been staying for the fallout” since musk bought it, still tweeting away dozens of times a day. They’re the same people that said they’d leave Reddit on July 1 yet are still there.

    • Albinoss@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Completely agree. I think people are so engrained that they just don’t want to try something else.