this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
2221 points (98.9% liked)

Fediverse

27398 readers
687 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the rebrand comes with X promising to be an app to replace everything?

X gonna give it to ya, X gonna deliver it to ya.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, it sure sounds like X is delivering users to Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Plot twist, Elon is a Mastodon marketer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It sounds like he's trying to copy zombo.com (listen to the audio for at least 30 seconds to a minute - the animation is a little broken by now)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He wants something like WeChat that does everything.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less than 1% of twitter users signed up to pay for twitter blue. And less than 1% of twitter users are going to do their banking through a social media site run by a megalomaniac. This is doomed to failure, just like it was 20 years ago.

As painful as it might be for him, this dude really needs to let go of his obsession with the letter X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That’s going to be challenging. The latest metrics show that only 0.2 percent of Twitter users are paying for Twitter Blue. Twitter Blue did have an estimated 116,000 confirmed signups on the web in March, up 138 percent from the month before, according to Similarweb. Still, that’s not nearly enough to make up for the lost money in advertising dollars.

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/15/23683554/twitter-dying-elon-musk-x-company

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He does know that Wechat is the everything app because of the authoritarian government, right...right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think he knows well how it works.