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.

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.

    • @Gacrux@lemm.ee
      4•2 years ago

      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

      • Flying Squid
        2•2 years ago

        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

        • BetoEnglish
          1•2 years ago

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