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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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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.

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[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wanted to use mastodon, but I haven't even used twitter in years, so then I realized I just don't social media that way anymore (or much at all for that matter).

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I got it and I'm trapped in a weird bubble of shit that doesn't really interest me and I don't like microblogging I think

[–] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Same. @squizzy, I don't like microblogging in general either. I was raised in the golden era of forums (the days of phpBB and vBulletin). My twitter account hasn't been touched for years now.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I mostly used twitter for checking trending topics for news

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was finally super duper permabanned from Reddit, and decided to give up. No more workarounds, new accounts, new emails, spoofing MAC addresses, multihop VPNs... And I've got to say, I have gotten more done in the past few weeks than in the last year combined.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

super duper permabanned from Reddit

What the hell did you do?!

[–] uberkalden@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I got permabanned for canning a right wing troll a loser. Apparently I had repeatedly violated the rules ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I posted unpopular opinions. Perpetually for over a decade.

[–] randomperson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I got permabanned for shitting on russians (I am a Polander so it's my default behavior).

[–] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never used Twitter save for occasionally hearing about tweets, but I have been enjoying using Mastodon because in practice it's basically just a way for me to have a feed of cool astronomy pictures.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I found cool astronomy pictures on Reddit, and some now on lemmy! Cheers for random cool pictures of space.