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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.

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

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Lemmy would be soaring too if it weren't for terrible database code allowing for easy ddos.
- Try using a smaller instance. I recently switched from lemmy.world to lemmy.zip and it's lightning fast. While you still get all the content from lemmy.world :)
  
  I find it interesting how many people are looking for the overall lemmy experience. The first thing I did was find the community niche that interested me and the relevant instance, then when I've exhausted that instance I switch to the Everything tab and all find the generic content.
  Edit: I accidentally wrote fine the community niece...
  
  How did you like the community niece?
  
  They fined her, so they obviously thought she did something wrong.
  
  Man, this is what I get for being illiterate.
  
  Oops
  
  Yeah that's what I said after my first community niece too.
  
  I find it interesting how many people are looking for the overall lemmy experience
  I'm one of them. I use Sync so the whole caboodle feels like just one site to me, whether it's the Everything feed or my subscribed.
  (I am not a techy person)
  
  I also use sync, although I bought the lifetime ad-free version for Reddit years ago for like $5 and now it's $100 which I can't afford here which is a shame. Still, it's my favourite app and I'm very familiar with it.
  
  A hundred dollarydoos for an app to view a free website!?
  
  It's the reddit pricing swapped over exactly, I'm not outright against an independent app creator having a paid option, because it's a very high quality app that deserves support, but I do feel it's soo steep. There are also subscription options but I never take those, and the ads are reasonably unobtrusive.
  
  So the developer has no underlying API cost to justify it and is pocketing it all? Obviously they can charge what they want and people can spend their money however they like, but this seems like an absolute con!
  
  The developer is definitely pocketing it all, however they were very active on Reddit in maintaining and improving the app with the most quality of life options I've seen across any app. Honestly if the paid option was $10, I'd go for it, since I get hundreds of hours of use out of it. Also back in the reddit days, you could find the paid version for free online pretty easily.
  
  I think I’m up to 5 lemmy instances now. Various reasons that others will figure out as they gain experience.
  
  switched from LW to discuss online
- Hopefully they can fix that issue and the communist communities stop having hissy fits.
  
  they're prob ddosing themselves for failing the purity tests.
  
  I had one tell me “you know nothing about communism, stop talking,” and I was like, oh, that’s right, I know nothing despite being well informed about the history of workers movements going back to the 1840s, Das Kapital, the Manifesto, and despite these noble ideals, the fact that every single communist government relied on purges to accomplish its goals, formed an exclusionary ruling class, and were corrupt as fuck. Fucking teenagers and their black and white thinking.
  
  But you see, that wasn't real Communism. Communism is a great and perfect egalitarian society by definition, so when it inevitably devolves into just another brand of stratification and oppression then it's not Communism anymore. Next time it'll work, though. We'll still follow exactly the same formula that's failed spectacularly every time it's been tried, but this time it'll work. For reasons. And if you say otherwise you're just a status-quo liberal (never mind the fact that those supposed status-quo liberals are the ones implementing real tangible change that actually affect peoples' lives while all the Communists do is endlessly wank about some glorious revolution that'll happen some time in the nebulous future.)
  
  When people say stuff like that it's not about politics, it's straight up about gatekeeping.
- At least it's open for collaboration so people who can or help contribute to fix bugs for them are able to do so. That's the beauty of open source, anyone can help out.

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