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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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[–] User_4272894@lemmy.world 357 points 1 year ago (35 children)

I can fathom no world where you'd want to trade away a multi billion dollar brand for a new brand you literally can't SEO. What, you think your brand is gonna be more impressive that the generic variable, and a part of the alphabet?

"Follow me on Twitter" becomes "follow me on X"? "You should tweet that" becomes "you should X that"? The little blue bird on every shop window, website, and business card becomes a stylized letter that, hopefully, doesn't look so threatening on the next iteration?

It's a textbook case of brand destruction. I almost regret never making a Twitter in the first place, just so I could quit today, or at any of the hundred days in the past year where it got inexplicably worse without reason.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The little blue bird on every shop window, website, and business card becomes a stylized letter that, hopefully, doesn’t look so threatening on the next iteration?

Haha, I know the most appropriate iteration, a red background with the X in a white circle.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perhaps with each corner of the X at a 90 degree angle clockwise? You know, to add style points.

[–] IanM32@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It makes the X go faster, everyone knows that.

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