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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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[-] notst@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The guy actually wrote software? Like he coded it?

[-] BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He wrote something called zip2 and sold it. Then he wrote get this... x.com, which became PayPal.

Edit, because I didn't really answer your question: yes he did code it, as far as anyone seems to know.

this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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