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.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    This reminds me of the time that the movie XxX came out and it was difficult to find to pirate.

    When you name yourself anything with a lot of X’s then your search engine results are going to point to adult entertainment over the product

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      1 year ago

      Just googled X, musk isn’t on the first page of results, absolute melon of a man.

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        1 year ago

        google is broken anyway after 2 decades of people fucking with the algo by offering SEO services. The search results are basically random now unless you really focus your search term.

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          Google should have added SEO detection that would allow a site to be near the top for enough time for an SEO consultant to get paid, then drop the site to page 4. SEO would have looked like a scam before long.