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

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

    • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The more i see and recognize the use of the term “Federation”, the more my inner geek hopes this is how IRL Star Trek starts.

      “The federation started as a group of loosely associated social media and information hubs where people would share ideas, porn and memes. The ideals and social structure would eventually spread to a much larger and more dynamic series of instances that built up to and even greater federation of the human online colonies. As it grew, first contact was made and the inter galactic trade federation was established to trade porn and memes, would eventually go onto to much more larger, important, totally not porn related causes. To explore strange new worlds, and seek out new…”

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        1 year ago

        There is a whole star trek instance conveniently enough: startrek.website

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          1 year ago

          I love the fact that you can now have a website that ends in .website. It’s like having username@email.com as your address.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t wait to charge aliens 5.99 intergalactic glonches to see my butthole every month.