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he’s pissed that Elon took his handle but not that pissed because he’s still on the platform (cancelled his twitter blue, wowwww great protest), he still loves Elon, and calls X “Twitter” 😭 this is wild
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account
Submitted 1 year ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to technology@lemmy.world
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StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Devccoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s like the CEO of Reddit editing users’ comments. Once you’ve opened this can of worms, you can’t exactly close it again.
Outside of expected circumstances like long-term inactivity or having snuck an inappropriate username past automatic censors, being forced to forfeit your handle is simply unspeakable on social media platforms. Your identity can be straight-up stolen, or altered, without forewarning, for any reason, and you have no recourse at all. And the guy deciding who gets screwed over like this is a rich, entitled right-wing monster who blatantly hurts others if he~~ thinks it might align with his politics somehow~~ wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and you’re today’s punching bag, frankly.
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Idk why he couldn’t have just created a new @ equivalent for his X accounts or whatever he’s doing. A $ sign would work, or a +, -, *, !, anything really. If he’s trying to make these be the “official” accounts then they don’t need to use the same @ symbol.
whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because he wants to be the original, damn it!
“But mom, I want to be a Tesla founder!”
“You weren’t there when Tesla was founded”
“I want it anyway, waaaah!”.
He has the emotional maturity of a spoiled child. Once you see it, everything he does makes 10x more sense.
stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 year ago
That would require Musk to either be intelligent or willing to listen to people who are and I’m unconvinced he’s either.
User_4272894@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Love the idea of Twitter advertisers becoming $username, !username for public figures, and +username for Twitter blue subscribers. It also means it would be super easy for people to write scripts to filter out certain users.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
$ is already used for stock tickets and such. For example $AAPL
TwoGems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“This company did a bad unethical thing to me but by golly, I think I’ll stay”
KitsuneHaiku@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
It’s crazy to me that Musk isn’t throwing them a couple thousand dollars for their trouble. They’ve only commandeered a few accounts, it’s like .0001% of their balance sheet.
jerome@kbin.social 1 year ago
what a dumb person. he deserves to lick boot.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If people actually follow Musk when he gets to Mars, that’s going to be their planetary overlord. He’ll just take their oxygen and they’ll thank him.
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No way he ever gets people to mars.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’ll rename Mars to Z before he gets there. When they inevitably won’t get there, he’ll declare that their craft is actually the thing called Z.
Marsupial@quokk.au 1 year ago
Apparently it’s just called Xgen™ when on Mass.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“10x the cost for a tenth of the oxygen as normal air!”
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Beatings will continue until morale improves
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since,” Jeremy Vaught, director of engineering at the nonprofit Life Happens, posted on X.
But Vaught never had the time to focus on leveraging the @music audience, only ever benefiting from the account when companies occasionally sent him free perks like headphones in trade for promotions.
Vaught said he was never interested because he knew that selling his handle violated Twitter’s terms of service, and he figured there was more value in keeping the account.
To “minimize any inconvenience” from having his account handle taken away, X defaulted to changing Vaught’s username to @musicfan, which he described as “probably the least worst” alternative the platform suggested.
But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.
“Twitter’s not dead to me at this point,” Vaught told Ars, even if “it’s a super huge bummer” to lose the @music account.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.net 1 year ago
Lol he even did just hold it only to sell it
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Meh. Super pissed but doing nothing about it and staying on the platform anyway == I guess they really weren’t that pissed. Not even at least leaving just sounds like absolute compliance here.
mlg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“…Nothing else compares.”
My dude never seen a forum in his life
ashok36@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The guy is a software engineer that was super into Second Life. I’m guessing he’s seen his share of forums.
Ab_intra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is some integrity right there. Wow.
Desistance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LOL just like a redditor.
Haha@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lmao so pissed that he cancelled his subscription wowwww
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Long-ter plan? I’m more than convinced that most decisions by Musky are made on the spot, during a bathroom brake presumably
UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where’s that gif of Oprah shrugging like she knew this was expected
tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
oh no!
anyway…
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Sucks to be him I guess. Stop using “X”
C3D@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The poor guy has stockholm syndrome for Twitter and Musk