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Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8

My favorite part:

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.

"it's highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media," Vaught said. "That's how I communicate and learn my news about what's going on. Nothing else compares."

His only "minor protest" to X's action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.

Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he's interested in Musk's electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn't tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He's holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he's struggling to adjust to the rebranding.

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[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"This company did a bad unethical thing to me but by golly, I think I'll stay"

[–] KitsuneHaiku@ttrpg.network 14 points 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.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 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.

[–] jerome@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

what a dumb person. he deserves to lick boot.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"...Nothing else compares."

My dude never seen a forum in his life

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

LOL just like a redditor.

[–] Haha@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Lmao so pissed that he cancelled his subscription wowwww

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

Beatings will continue until morale improves

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.


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[–] Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.net 5 points 1 year ago

Lol he even did just hold it only to sell it

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Sucks to be him I guess. Stop using "X"