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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      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

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        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

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

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        Imagine a billionaire approving that “logo” despite how uncreative it is. Like get a better graphic designer I guess?

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          only difference between billionaires and normal people is that billionaires have a lot of money. best not to assume they have above-average logo appreciation skills. although they could hire some good advisors i suppose

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            yeah but then they’d be spending money to be told they might not be 100% right and perfect 100% of the time, and that’s just a waste of money

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        Why did they do my boy \mathds{X} like that?

        Now nobody will use him for an algebraic ring :(