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.

  • Bogasse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It must be so horrible working “with” him. You’re trying to build something and every morning you must be frightened to see Elon hanging on a ladder because he thought it was so funny to draw dicks everywhere on the building, which would have you cancel everything you are working on.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve worked in a founder led business and this is why I quit.

      I’d spend forever working on a project to build a satellite site then suddenly we don’t want that anymore - bin the recipes we want a full main site redbrand.

      Bye.

      • Bogasse@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Feel you, I’ve been working with this kind of person but he was pushed away a few weeks after my arrival. He still had time to make an impression though, his genius move was to tell each team that the others hated them, which had no effect because we talked to each others…