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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

believe it or not its more likely they straight up ripped off U+1D54F MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X:

๐•

absolutely no creativity. at least threads drew the ring in @ clockwise instead of the usual anticlockwise

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Saw this on Mastodon:

Important sets:

โ„‚ the complex numbers

โ„• the natural numbers

โ„š the rational numbers

โ„ the real numbers

๐• the set of fascists wannabes

โ„ค the integers

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would argue that โ„ค would also be the set of Russian fascist wannabes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Billionaires wouldn't care if they're wasting money

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

if that was true then maybe the stingy fuckers would tip wait staff

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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

Now nobody will use him for an algebraic ring :(