How do you spend 16 years building a username?
Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
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Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#22This is why I like how Bluesky handles it, you can use your own domain name. So I simply got @gilli.is, no reason for anyone ever to take that away from me.
Same thing applies to Email, XMPP, Matrix, SIP, ActivityPub servers... nothing special about bluesky.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#23*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
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Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#25Meh. I think it's fine for them to take it, but they should have left a link up to his new account, and publicly thanked him for keeping an eye on this url for so long. Maybe throw in a 16 year credit towards free service or something. This just seems like a super easy opportunity to make fans. It reminds me of how Microsoft messed up with Mike Rowe soft at first.
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Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#26People should start referring to it as "Ex".
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#27This is why I like how Bluesky handles it, you can use your own domain name. So I simply got @gilli.is, no reason for anyone ever to take that away from me.
Same thing applies to Email, XMPP, Matrix, SIP, ActivityPub servers... nothing special about bluesky.
What is special about bluesky is that you don't have to host the service yourself (or pay a third party) for it to work.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#28*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.
By that logic, Uber and Instagram and WhatsApp should not have been started, as the iOS App Store is unequivocally "someone else's land", and these services could only exist as native apps.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#29*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.
By that logic, Uber and Instagram and WhatsApp should not have been started, as the iOS App Store is unequivocally "someone else's land", and these services could only exist as native apps.
Why couldn't they be built as web apps?
Also, if it helps, by that logic no one shouldn't be using iOS or anything by Apple, which is also a rule that I follow.
Re: Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away
#30How do you spend 16 years building a username?
I assume he means "building the following by posting good content, etc. etc. for 16 years".
This @music is a nice OG.. too bad they ruined it for him.