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.

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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.