Technology @lemmy.ml cyu @sh.itjust.works 11 mo. ago

X, formerly Twitter, commandeers '@music' handle from user with half a million followers

www.cnbc.com X, formerly Twitter, commandeers '@music' handle from user with half a million followers

Elon Musk-led X Corp. has commandeered "@music" from a long-time Twitter user, software developer Jeremy Vaught.

X terms of service has right to take back username. X ported his followers over to new account at least, he said. Vaught is still using X, though he did set up account on Threads and Mastodon.

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I'm tired of hearing about this company and its owner. Why is this news? Why is this shared? Can move on?
- It gets worse on Fediverse as there are multiple threads to the same link on multiple instances. can't get rid of reposts anymore
  
  Most of them from the same 4 or 5 users.
- Not even news, it happened a few days ago now
- isn't this supposed to be reddit? upvote the title of the article whenever it says something that aligns with your political identity
  
  No
Dude is still simping for Musk. No sympathy.
Old News news from last week.
Belongs in the enough musk spam community.
I honestly don't understand why anyone still has an account on that platform. Surely it's obvious that the company is going down in flames and that Musk is going to outright steal users and handles from content creators. Inertia is not a good reason to fall victim to Sunk Cost Fallacy. It's done. Leave.
- Almost none of the people I follow on Twitter are on Mastodon and almost none of the people that follow me are there either. I'm not on Twitter because of the platform. I'm there because of the people on that platform. My strictly curated feed haven't changed during the past few years no matter how hard people here are trying to convince me that Twitter has gone to shit. Maybe for you it has but I can't relate. What ever Elon is doing happens in a corner of Twitter I'm not spending my time on.
  
  It's also the only platform where I've managed to grow any kind of following. It's much nicer posting my content somewhere people actually see it unlike on places like Instagram which is just shouting into the void. The only change I've made is switch from the Flamingo app to browser because they killed 3rd party apps just like reddit.
  
  Two things I‘m gonna fix for ya:
  
  All the people you know on twitter are also on mastodon. Double negatives are dumb.
  
  They came first for the communists… is your approach. Has been tried, don’t recommend.
  
  Good luck
  
  You want to know something that's really amazing? This is 100% true, too. I'm not even kidding:
  
  None of that matters.
  
  It honestly sounds like you've found a niche where Elon hasn't looked yet. Congratulations.
  
  If Twitter is a better platform for you, why bother with the fediverse?
Woah crazyyyy. Everyone should get off if Twitter.

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