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.

  • Sean@mastodon.world
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    1 year ago

    @Busy @FlyingSquid

    Probably cause more and more users gravitated to mobile where it became commonplace to include emojis in posts. I remember too when using emojis was a mortal sin. At most you could use an emoticon but that was it.

    • NotSteffen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Back when I started using Reddit it was frowned upon to post OC. I remember some subs had rules that you would be banned if you more than like 10% of your posts were OC.