Is there a recognized excellent guide for non-techy-people-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon?
I don't twit, but I can see how it would still baffle the average user.
Is there a recognized excellent guide for non-techy-people-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon?
I don't twit, but I can see how it would still baffle the average user.
Couldn't even pay for the new logo....
Twitter replaced the logo after Musk requested for people to post logo submissions and that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.” Musk then pinned a tweet featuring a video created by a Twitter user named Sawyer Merritt and changed his own profile photo to the new X logo. Musk did note that the new X logo is an “interim” one, so it could be replaced at a later stage.
What's even funnier is that anyone pretending to be the creator of the logo is a liar. (It is a scammer's website, after all.)
It's a symbol that's part of the "mathematical alphanumerical symbols" subset of Unicode since ~2001: *�, also known as Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X (U+1D54F).
This is literally the only thing on-brand about this whole fiasco
What, is he trying to ensure his new product is entirely branded as "shit"? I am amazed. Usually you rebrand to get away from something the previous direction was doing. Considering he was still operating on the goodwill from the previous direction while actively tanking the platform, this is astounding.
He scared off a large portion of developers, killed third party clients, destroyed validated users via monetization, let bad actors back onto the platform, and thrown away iconic branding for edge lord bullshit. Manchurian CEO.
I feel at this point it would’ve made more sense to just build his own social media platform from scratch. What he’s doing is like spending billions to buy a specific used car, only to promptly replace every single part of it and throw the existing parts away. I mean sure, but then why not just buy a new car to begin with?
His costs of hiring, retention, RFP-bidding, and regulatory compliance are all going up at his other businesses.
And, his employees at those other businesses no longer think he’s a genius, which might be worse. Morale is going to be a serious issue.
Elon will be sent to pasture at all of his investments by the end of the decade. The cost of doing business with him is going to become too high.
Closing the window seems like a better choice, let's call it a happy accident.
I wonder what the equivalent to a “tweet” is going to be.
I think he means the artwork for the letter since the font is commercially available?
US copyright law doesn't allow for protection of something like that. A dingbat, yes, but if it's very plainly recognizable as an X then the exact shape and output of that typeface isn't protectable. You can even print out a font, scan it, and create a new copycat font from it. The only thing you can't do is reproduce the actual typeface file itself, which is fundamentally a single copyrighted piece of software. Some other countries allow more protection on the shapes of individual letters, but I don't think you'd ever win a case anywhere on such a simple geometric shape as this X.
Xtinct is what’s going to happen
I have a hard time imagining that a letter individually considered, with only minimal stylization, will not have lots of issues for being protected and defended as a trademark.
He's wanted an X company for so long - it feels like something from a teenager desperately trying to be edgy.
He got x.com in 1999, trying to make an online bank. He then bought/merged with a company that was doing an online payment system, envisioning it as part of X, but that got rebranded to PayPal and ended up being spun off separately, ultimately bought by eBay. The online bank thing failed.
I think he's probably going to try to make Twitter the base for a new online bank thing, but I hope not too many people are dumb enough to trust their money to Musk.
The current logo is a copy of the one from XOrg Foundation.
Not really; the XOrg logo is clearly designed in two parts, with a break between the two sections. It's absolutely reminiscent of it, though, just different enough that you can't really call it a copy.
I'd like to see more news about tech, and less news about social media
As opposed to? :D
Unless it's since changed hands again, he did actually buy the domain back from PayPal ~6 years ago: https://www.techspot.com/...
It's why x.com currently redirects to twitter.
Ah yes, rebranding while in the process of losing loads of users because of your own stupidity! That's sure to go well!
As has been pointed out elsewhere on the net, the Twitter branding was the most valuable part besides the already existing userbase. Having "tweeting" and as a verb in everyday English has been a godsend marketing specialists can only dream of and it has become so prevalent in news and journalism, it's both hilarious and depressing.
Elon is really working to make the dream of mainstream Mastodon and a big fediverse a reality.
I love the chaos.
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I've never been more sure of my decision to move to the fediverse. Y'all still on Twitter should go make a mastodon account
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