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.

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

  • flossdaily@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure there were a huge swath of people who used Twitter and didn’t care at all about Musk one way or the other.

    Then he rebranded and threw his ego and control in everyone’s face. And all the people who like Twitter IN SPITE of Elon were now forced to acknowledge that their Twitter is gone.

    Just like over at reddit now, the latest move has alienated the people who really cared about the platform itself. If they rebranded to “Spez’s World”, though, a lot of the people who didn’t give a shit before would suddenly be ready to bail.

  • o0joshua0o@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    He has so thoroughly ruined Twitter that you can’t help but wonder if that was his goal from the outset.

  • ActionHank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I like the idea of referring to it only as “The social media site formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

  • miz_elektro@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Just deleted my Twitter account. Of course, the app gave nothing but errors so I had to do it on desktop, but it’s done!

  • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I root for Mastodon like everyone else but as long as there is some very good improvement in discoverability and intelligent feeds, it will never be the same in function as Twitter (not X, Twitter). Especially when it currently has a fraction of the creators Twitter had.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Discoverabily is like crack. It’s what hooks you, and it’s what drags you into hell.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I find Mastodon very stuffy and boring, is there a way to shake up my feed? I feel like I’m missing something about how the app works.

    • figaro@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’d recommend following the hashtags you want to see. It’s sort of a build-your-own algorithm

    • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is a welcome change tbh. All these other platforms push rage bait and crap just to drive engagement numbers.

      It’s refreshing to go back a little to how the Internet used to be. You had to go and find what you liked, not have a million things pushed on you.

  • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    It’s not the rebrand that’s killing Twitter. Elon is. He’s proving to himself that he cannot, in fact, run Twitter better than the prior owners.

    • hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      I wonder if previous twitter execs are feeling a bit bad to have sold him twitter to see it destroyed like that.

      I mean it certainly proves Elon is an idiot as he used fraud to manipulate the price and got played instead.

      But was it worth it to let him destroy Twitter just because he tried to defraud it?

      • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They got $44 billion, double what sane people thought the company was worth. It would be irresponsible not to take Elon for a ride.