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*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.
*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.
In the early days if something had gone wrong, it might have been a different story.
Though I suspect that companies with good VC connections might have side channels into Apple or Google to clear up problems.
Not like little guys who can wake up one morning to discover their $20K/month business is no more.
As pointed out in the comments he didn't have 11M followers. @music was renamed to @musicfan and @twittermusic was renamed to @music. Both accounts kept all of their followers.
So it is completely ok?
So... the 'thermostat' is theirs and theirs alone. You are just allowed to eat/sleep in your parents house. You're not entitled to anything in it.
Perhaps the $8 per month may give you some 'rights' but I'm sure the T&C give them the upper hand.
Meh. 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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Meh. 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.
Your business is located at 420 West 69th Street. Along comes X and takes that address away from you? Would you like that?
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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.
Google was running my email server with custom domain for years, free of charge. I think that it is still grandfathered in for those that signed for Google Apps early on. IT doesn't mean that the "email is free".
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I hope the bank claim the money back from your account since you don't control or own their "platform".
What kind of comparison is this? In most modern countries, banking isn't a platform in the same sense that Twitter is, and despite large issues over the last few decades, they are still regulated by the government(s) they operate in.
*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.
a good excuse to never build anything
life is risk
this sucks, no doubt but this snark is so unproductive
Meh. 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.
Thought experiment: Your business is located at 420 West 69th Street. Along comes X and takes that address away from you? Would you like that?
Secondly, I don't think this comparison with an address by a random stranger for no apparent reason is correct to begin with
Meh. 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.
Thought experiment: Your business is located at 420 West 69th Street. Along comes X and takes that address away from you? Would you like that?
Someone takes something* away from you. Would you like it?
*thing wasn't yours to begin with