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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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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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[-] woshang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I guess the whole Threads battle making Elon realize he needs to be the data master, and X born earlier than I expected

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Um yeah, I'm not seeing that. You can see monthly active users on https://the-federation.info/platform/21 and it's been fluctuating up and down, no big jump. So I call bullshit on that article based on the metric there. Though no doubt as Twitter (X) implodes Mastodon will see the fallout with higher activity.

[-] Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't want to rain on your parade but I'll do it anyway: The numbers of active posts and members in Lemmy communities, even in the most active ones, are mindbogglingly low in comparison with Reddit, even in comparison to somethingawful what I still consider the dirty cousin of Reddit.

All the numbers are just two sizes lower than Reddit and then there is the atrocious web interface. I have stopped counting how often my posts got eaten, the reply button didn't react and general stuff didn't work at all.

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[-] samokosik@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe if twitter keeps fucking shit up, mastodon will become mainstream haha. I would certainly love to see that.