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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        I would argue that ℤ would also be the set of Russian fascist wannabes.

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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