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

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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch
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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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believe it or not its more likely they straight up ripped off U+1D54F MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X:

𝕏

absolutely no creativity. at least threads drew the ring in @ clockwise instead of the usual anticlockwise

Saw this on Mastodon:

Important sets:

ℂ the complex numbers

ℕ the natural numbers

ℚ the rational numbers

ℝ the real numbers

𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes

ℤ the integers

My favorite comment about this from Mastodon: "X is just a sans serif swastika".

I would argue that ℤ would also be the set of Russian fascist wannabes.

Imagine a billionaire approving that "logo" despite how uncreative it is. Like get a better graphic designer I guess?

only difference between billionaires and normal people is that billionaires have a lot of money. best not to assume they have above-average logo appreciation skills. although they could hire some good advisors i suppose

yeah but then they'd be spending money to be told they might not be 100% right and perfect 100% of the time, and that's just a waste of money

Billionaires wouldn't care if they're wasting money

if that was true then maybe the stingy fuckers would tip wait staff

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